Senegalese nationals in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx turn out to vote in home country's election



Senegalese election workers at Harlem's bureau
three tally the votes shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday.
 More than 5,000 Senagalese nationals in
New York participated in their country's presidential election.

Senegalese voters in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx still had an hour left to vote in their home country’s national election on Sunday , when they heard the report that President Abdoulaye Wade had conceded defeat in his controversial bid for a third term.
A handful of Senegalese immigrants, gathered at a mosque in the Bronx, erupted in celebration around 5 p.m. when a caller from Senegal announded the news over the phone.
“Democracy has won,” said an excited Pape Baro, 59, an election observer representing Wade’s challenger — and now the presumptive president-elect — Macky Sall.


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Senegal’s Wade Expected to Face Tough Run-off Vote

From Voice of America:

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade is expected to face a tough run-off vote against former prime minister Macky Sall, who is working to round up opposition support. A group of Senegalese opposition leaders began talks Wednesday in the capital, Dakar, to discuss forming an alliance aimed at defeating the 85-year-old incumbent.

Mr. Wade has admitted he fell short of the 50 percent of the votes needed in Sunday's poll to avoid a runoff. Provisional results show he has more than 30 percent of the vote, and Mr. Sall is trailing him by roughly seven point. Final results are expected on Friday and a run-off election is scheduled for March 18. Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, one of eleven other presidential candidates, told VOA opposition leaders want to unite with civil society groups to oust Mr. Wade. Read the rest of the Story.....