France says Senegal should end uncertainty created by President Macky Sall’s announcement that an election scheduled for February 25 would be postponed indefinitely calling for a vote as soon as possible. The intervention from Paris, the former colonial power in Senegal, came as opposition presidential candidates called for a Sunday afternoon demonstration in Dakar. Washington and West African bloc ECOWAS both expressed concern and called for a swift new vote following Sall’s Saturday announcement. The president says a conflict between the Constitutional Council and parliament over approvals of presidential candidacies had led to the suspension of the vote.
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