{"id":6093,"date":"2019-02-24T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/24\/an-uncharacteristically-short-list-of-senegalese-presidential-candidates\/"},"modified":"2019-02-24T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T11:00:37","slug":"an-uncharacteristically-short-list-of-senegalese-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/24\/an-uncharacteristically-short-list-of-senegalese-presidential-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"An uncharacteristically short list of Senegalese presidential candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Reporting from Dakar, Senegal, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Nadia Massih explains that there are only five presidential hopefuls in the 2019 race since the incumbent, President Macky Sall&rsquo;s two biggest rivals &#8212; &#8212; popular former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade, the son of the previous president &#8212; were disqualified after corruption convictions in trials questioned by rights groups. Sall faces competition from four lesser-known rivals who campaigned hard against his plans for a second phase of his project, which critics see as a waste of taxpayers&rsquo; money and a potential debt burden. His rivals are former prime minister Idrissa Seck, Issa Sall of the Unity and Assembly Party (PUR), former justice and foreign minister Madicke Niang and tax inspector-turned MP Ousman Sonko. The five-horse race leaves voters with a limited choice compared to 2012 when 14 candidates vied for the top post, and 2007 when 15 battled it out for the presidency.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting from Dakar, Senegal, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Nadia Massih explains that there are only five presidential hopefuls in the 2019 race since the incumbent, President Macky Sall&rsquo;s two biggest rivals &#8212; &#8212; popular former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade, the son of the previous president &#8212; were disqualified after corruption convictions in trials questioned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}