Demonstration of Senegalese residents in Madrid, Spain against President Macky Sall. for the rejection of his list for the legislative elections on July 31, after organizing an unauthorized protest last Friday in which he lamented three deaths. The leader of the opposition, Ousmane Sonko, accused President Sall of wanting to establish a dictatorship in Senegal and of being responsible for the banning of the demonstration organized last Friday after learning of the success of the first, held under authorization and peacefully last 8 of June. "We have considered that we cannot continue to accep


Demonstration of Senegalese residents in Madrid, Spain against President Macky Sall. for the rejection of his list for the legislative elections on July 31, after organizing an unauthorized protest last Friday in which he lamented three deaths. The leader of the opposition, Ousmane Sonko, accused President Sall of wanting to establish a dictatorship in Senegal and of being responsible for the banning of the demonstration organized last Friday after learning of the success of the first, held under authorization and peacefully last 8 of June. "We have considered that we cannot continue to accept Macky Sall. Since he has been in charge of this country for 10 years, For the opposition leader, the demonstration has been very important that all the world's cameras turn towards Senegal and the proof is that "for a long time we have not had the international press in our press centers (and we have been able to follow the coverage of this demonstration ". "The world is going to discover who Macky Sall is. A man who plays at being the defender of Africa, a democrat, who rejects that the elections take place normally in Senegal," he added, noting that the Senegalese president intends to exceed the two mandates allowed. by the Constitution in the next presidential elections of 2024. The Senegalese opposition coalition Yewwi Askan Wi (Free the People), led by Sonko, also demanded the release of those detained during the latest protest and announced legal proceedings against the Senegalese state for the death of three protesters on the 17th in Dakar and the southern towns of Bignona and Ziguinchor.


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