Senegal ex-president makes political comeback from afar:
DAKAR: Senegal’s former leader Macky Sall, who earlier this year sparked one of the worst crises in ...
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Macky Sall seeks political comeback from abroadIn Senegal’s snap parliamentary election on November 17, the former president leads a newly formed opposition coalition remotely.
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- Sall left office in April after 12 years, handed power to Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and departed for Morocco.
- Faye dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament in September, paving the way for the legislative election on November 17.
- Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko accused Sall and his former administration of leaving catastrophic public finances and manipulating figures given to international partners, allegations former leaders deny.
- Government spokesman Amadou Moustapha Ndieck Sarre said Sall’s safety would be ensured if he returned, but a court could still order his arrest; a researcher called a high-treason case legally very complicated.
High treason is the only case in which a president can be charged.— El Hadji Mamadou Mbaye, political science lecturer and researcher at the University of Saint-Louis, said this about the legal avenues for charging a former president in Senegal.
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