Idrissa Seck, the main challenger to the president, casts his ballot in Senegalese election

Record ID: 1396824

  • Title: Idrissa Seck, the main challenger to the president, casts his ballot in Senegalese election
  • Date: 24th February 2019
  • Summary: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT (FEBRUARY 24, 2019) (REUTERS) MEDIA SURROUNDING EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER IN CONFERENCE HALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, SAYING: "This is a very important summit because it's the first time between the Arab League and the European Union. The meeting is the message but that's not suf
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2019 11:50
  • Keywords: Thies Senegal election presidential election voting Idrissa Seck Macky Sall ballot
  • Location: THIES, SENEGAL
  • City: THIES, SENEGAL
  • Country: Senegal
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA003A2XX9ON
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING
    Idrissa Seck, one of the main challengers to the president of Senegal, cast his vote in the presidential election on Sunday (February 24) in his stronghold of Thies.
    A prime minister under former President Abdoulaye Wade, Seck is competing in a presidential election for the third time following failed efforts in 2007 and 2012.
    Leader of the Rewmi ('The Country') party, Seck is representing the Idy Coalition 2019 in this year's ballot.
    Incumbent President Macky Sall is the strong favourite to win, boosted by a modernising first term that propelled economic growth although critics accuse him of jailing his rivals for political gain.
    Opinion polls are banned in the run-up to the vote, but a survey by a Senegalese data company in November gave Sall 45 percent support. Of his four rivals now lined up in the smallest field of candidates since 1988, none had more than 16 percent.
    (Production: Cheikh Sadibou Mane, Yvonne Bell)
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