As Senegal readies for an oil and gas boom, President Macky Sall is putting the country’s stability at risk by refusing to rule out running for a third term, according to his main political challenger.
Still, he said, Sonko has stoked tensions in the past and is partly to blame for the current standoff.
The project has attracted interest from Europe, which is seeking to reduce its dependency on Russian gas following the invasion of Ukraine. Sall has no obvious successor and given the loss in the parliamentary vote, his party’s hold on the presidency is less secure. The Alliance for the Republic has argued he should be allowed to be a candidate after a 2016 constitutional change cut the presidential terms to five years from seven.
“Every time Senegal has come close to catching fire,” it’s been over “efforts to eliminate candidates and to validate a president’s third term,” he said. “Whether someone’s allowed to run or not isn’t up to analysts, journalists or other political leaders to decide,” he said. “In this case, we hear analysts, journalists and other politicians that want to impose something on a person that’s in fact up to the court.”
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