Senegal’s ruling party has claimed a comfortable victory in Sunday’s legislative elections with nearly all ballots counted.
The win comes just a few months after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye secured the presidential election, and now clears his way to carry out an ambitious reform agenda.
Local media reported that Diomaye Faye’s PASTEF party had emerged as the winner in most of the first polling stations giving their provisional results.
Even as vote counting was still going on, Senegal’s two main opposition parties conceded.
Former President Macky Sall, who leads an opposition grouping from abroad called Takku Wallu Senegal, claimed the vote was marred by “massive fraud organized by PASTEF.” Sall did not provide further details on the alleged fraud.
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