Senegal Elections

Senegal will hold its presidential elections in February and among the contenders there is a world renowned musician; Youssou N'dour. VOA's Ndimyake Mwakalyelye reports and talks to Idrissa Fall, of VOA's French to Africa service about the upcoming elections.

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• Africa
• Senegal
• Elections
• Presidential Elections
• Music
• Musician
• Youssou N'dour
• Ndimyake Mwakalyelye
• Idrissa Fall
• VOA
• Voice of America
• French to Africa
• In Focus

[lightonphiri]

@CP3Mantorras Yes indeed, you are right on that one. I have been away from home for so long and I am begging to forget the law. He did announce the election date 3 months prior though and top presidential aspirants had expressed interest to contest almost a year prior to the election date.

I just don't see the logic behind someone expressing interest to contest a month before elections --it simply escapes all logic.

[CP3Mantorras]

@lightonphi no Im not from Senegal, America just follow African politics closely... please explain your three month file because I remembered and I googled to be sure, Banda didn't file his re-election papers until August 10 and the election was Sept. 20

[lightonphiri]

@CP3Mantorras I hail from Zambia and election dates are announced at least 6 months in advance. In fact, candidates file in their nomination papers 3 months before elections. This jus doesn't sound right.

Are you from Senegal?

[CP3Mantorras]

@lightonphiri thats how elections work in a lot of countries in Africa, not much campaign time

[lightonphiri]

February, 2012? I could be wrong here, but that sounds insane; I mean the fellow only expressed interest to stand a few days ago.... does he have sufficient time to campaign?