Achi news desk-
Dakar, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 28 March, 2024) Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won Senegal’s presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results showed on Wednesday.
He placed well ahead of the ruling coalition candidate, former prime minister Amadou Ba, who garnered 35.79 percent.
The victory for Faye, who was released from prison just 10 days before the election, still has to be validated by Senegal’s main constitutional body, which could happen in a few days.
Faye, 44, who has said he wants a “break” with the current political system, is set to become the youngest president in Senegal’s history.
The candidate in third place, Aliou Mamadou Dia, won only 2.8 percent of the vote, according to figures read in the Dakar court by the president of the national vote counting commission, Amady Diouf.
Although his victory in Sunday’s vote was already clear after the announcement of partial unofficial results, Faye’s margin of victory was confirmed on Wednesday by the vote counting commission, which comes under the judiciary.
