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Last Sunday, the ruling majority lost in key cities: Dakar, Ziguinchor, Kaolack and Diourbel. The young coalition Yewwi Askan Wi, created around the former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall and Ousmane Sonko, fierce opponent of President Macky Sall, has proven itself. And the PDS of former President Abdoulaye Wade seems to be losing momentum more than ever.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
The ruling coalition may claim ” maintain national hegemony “, Sunday’s ballot was” a penalty vote », according to Ababacar Fall, electoral expert and secretary general of the Research and Support Group for Participatory Democracy and Good Governance (Gradec).
« It is a massive rejection of the policy applied by the presidential movement, with diversions, with bad management, youth unemployment, socio-economic difficulties, and the whole debate on the third term. »
Opposition to Macky Sall’s possible candidacy for a third term in 2024 is the cement of the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition (“free the people” in Wolof). The alliance project, announced following the riots in March, officially took shape last September. Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall succeeded in their bet.
« Thanks to these results, it is to be expected that this coalition will strengthen with others, for example the coalition put in place by the PDS. Today, she is sinking a little. Today, she is a little sinking into the hole. We saw the absence of Abdoulaye Wade, of his son Karim. They really underperformed “, resumes the expert.
For the majority, the room for maneuver remains narrow to rectify the situation before the legislative elections, scheduled – in principle – for the month of June, mid-term for the Head of State.
