{"id":3174,"date":"2019-02-28T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:42:45","slug":"senegal-election-president-macky-sall-wins-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/28\/senegal-election-president-macky-sall-wins-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal election: President Macky Sall wins second term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senegal&#8217;s President Macky Sall has won a second seven-year term following Sunday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He took 58% of the vote in the poll in which he faced four challengers, but was accused of preventing some of his main rivals from running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two well-known opposition figures were barred from taking part because of corruption convictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Sall was first elected in 2012. On the campaign trail, he focused on his record with infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has portrayed himself as a moderniser who has helped to boost economic growth to more than 6% a year, one of the highest rates in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-47298867\">Will Senegal be bowled over by big projects?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-46467098\">Senegal unveils Museum of Black Civilisations<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-46973684\">Bridge ends &#8216;centuries&#8217; of commuting chaos<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, critics say most ordinary Senegalese have not felt the benefits of these projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khalifa Sall (no relation to the president), the popular former mayor of Dakar, and Karim Wade, the son of a former president, were unable to run after being found guilty of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, neither the Socialist Party nor the Senegalese Democratic Party, which have dominated the country&#8217;s political landscape since independence, fielded presidential candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Sall&#8217;s closest rival, former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, got 21% of the vote.ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all, only five candidates were on the ballot paper, compared to 12 in the last election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-46971250\">Is Africa going backwards on democracy?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-46017359\">&#8216;Fish are vanishing&#8217; &#8211; Senegal&#8217;s devastated coastline<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 6.6 million people were registered to vote in Sunday&#8217;s election, including some residents living abroad, and 66% turned out to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s President Macky Sall has won a second seven-year term following Sunday&#8217;s election. He took 58% of the vote in the poll in which he faced four challengers, but was accused of preventing some of his main rivals from running. Two well-known opposition figures were barred from taking part because of corruption convictions. Mr Sall was first elected in 2012&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/28\/senegal-election-president-macky-sall-wins-second-term\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}