Economic and social issues are at the core of the current crisis in Senegal.
at the head of a broad coalition whose main aspiration was “change” and the defeat of the Socialist Party. In 2001, Senegal amended its constitution to limit the president to two consecutive five-year terms after the completion of Wade’s seven-year term in 2007.
In the 2007 elections, the opposition boycotted the election and claimed it would not be free and fair. That was because, in 2006, Wade had one of his former top lieutenants,, arrested for treason after he broke with the president and indicated a run against him in 2007. This was unprecedented in Senegalese political history. Consequently, Wade easily won reelection to a five-year term.
This was the first time in Senegal’s history where the political stability of the country was called into question and it brought into public view many of the underlying major social and economic issues that afflicted a substantial portion of the country’s population, and which were only worsened by the policies pursued by Wade as well as Diouf in his last decade in office.
, his former prime minister, who was elected to a seven-year term. Sall’s main position was opposition to Wade and most of his economic and social programs were identical to his former boss., Sall pushed through another revision to the constitution that once more shortened the presidential term to five years but would only take effect after completion of his seven-year term in 2019.
The wealthy in Senegal are vastly wealthy. Yet nearly half the country lives below the internationally recognized poverty line.was around the massive energy shortages that produced daily blackouts for an hour or so a day and at times that summer could last a week or more. Then, young people took to the streets and found cultural leadership through rappers such as Y’en a Marre (
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