
Presidential race setback for Senegal opposition leader after court rulings
Al JazeeraSenegal’s top opposition leader has suffered major setbacks in his quest to contest the presidency after the Supreme Court upheld a defamation conviction against him and the Constitutional Council later rejected his application to be a presidential candidate. “From the outset, the government has shown its willingness to invalidate Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy.” Ly slammed the Council’s decision as an “electoral farce” and suggested he would lodge “the appeals provided for by law”. The council’s decision came hours after the Supreme Court rejected the jailed opposition leader’s appeal of his conviction for defamation after being sued by a government minister. Sonko lost on all counts,” state lawyer El Hadji Diouf said earlier on Friday after the Supreme Court judge ruled to uphold the six-month suspended sentence following a more-than-12-hour hearing.
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