Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Senegal have urged President Macky Sall to give up his aspiration of running for a third term in office.
The NGOs believe a third-term candidacy will spread ‘chaos’ in the West African country.
President Sall was elected in 2012, re-elected in 2019, and for months now has vaguely expressed his intentions of running for another term.
His legitimacy to run again has been debated in several quarters, even as the opposition has promised fierce resistance if he takes the step.
According to the Senegalese constitution, a president cannot serve more than two consecutive terms.
However, Sall’s supporters have defended the idea of a third term, citing the 2016 constitutional review, which they say would reset the clock.
‘The limitation of mandates to two is unequivocal and definitively anchored in the fundamental law’.
The refusal of a third mandate was one of the watchwords of the 2021 riots in Senegal in a tense social and health context.
Source: Africanews
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