Senegal has held snap elections after the president dissolved parliament hoping to sweep through ambitious reforms.
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is hoping for a legislative majority. In March, he became Africa’s youngest elected leader running on an anti-establishment platform which appealed to Senegal’s large population of young voters. But the opposition-led parliament has hampered his government’s efforts to implement its reforms – leading FY to dissolve parliament in September and call snap elections as soon as the constitution allowed him to do so.
For more, we are joined in the studio by Mamadou Diallo, a teaching fellow and PhD candidate at Columbia University.
00:00 Senegal holds snap elections
00:43 Studio talk with Mamadou Diallo
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