{"id":30266,"date":"2023-03-21T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=30266"},"modified":"2023-03-21T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:51:11","slug":"senegal-leader-says-its-legal-to-seek-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/03\/21\/senegal-leader-says-its-legal-to-seek-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal leader says it&#8217;s legal to seek third term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senegal&#8217;s president has rejected claims that it would be unconstitutional for him to seek a controversial third mandate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macky Sall&#8217;s comments in an interview with the French magazine L&#8217;Express are likely to fuel an already tense political climate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The constitution in Senegal was amended in 2016 to shorten a presidential term from seven to five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It states that no-one can serve more than two consecutive terms which the opposition says clearly prevents Mr Sall from running in next year&#8217;s election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics of Mr Sall accuse his government of using the courts to sideline the opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Sonko is currently facing two court cases that could threaten his eligibility for the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s president has rejected claims that it would be unconstitutional for him to seek a controversial third mandate.&nbsp; Macky Sall&#8217;s comments in an interview with the French magazine L&#8217;Express are likely to fuel an already tense political climate.&nbsp; The constitution in Senegal was amended in 2016 to shorten a presidential term from seven to five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10507,911,6351,6569,2264,11493,9756,11973,3805,11377,1749,12664],"class_list":["post-30266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-court","tag-election","tag-french","tag-fuel","tag-government","tag-interview","tag-mackey-sall","tag-one","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-senegal","tag-third-term"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}