DAKAR - A Senegalese administrative court last week quashed a decision to remove opposition figure Ousmane Sonko from electoral lists and ordered his reinstatement, making him eligible to run in the February 2024 elections.
Sonko’s lawyers told the court in Ziguinchor that their client was tried in absentia and arrested, arguing that the conviction should be overturned and Sonko’s civil rights restored.
Sonko, 49, remains the main political opposition to President Macky Sall, and has accused the state of political persecution aimed at deterring him from running for the country’s top seat.
