2 December 2011<\/p>\n
Senegal’s main opposition coalition has failed to agree on a single candidate to field against incumbent Abdoulaye Wade in next year’s presidential election, political sources said on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 33-party Benno Siggil Senegaal (United to Boost Senegal) coalition had set up a committee months ago to decide on a single candidate to unseat the 85-year-old Wade in polls slated for February 2012.<\/p>\n
The two frontrunners in the primary were former prime minister Moustapha Niasse and Socialist Party first secretary Ousmane Tanor Dieng.<\/p>\n
As neither candidate agreed to support the other, the special committee had put the matter to a vote, which saw 19 out of the coalition’s 33 parties throw their weight behind Niasse, who heads the Alliance of the Forces of Progress.<\/p>\n
After the result late Thursday, Niasse’s main rival challenged the decision and said he would stand for president regardless.<\/p>\n
“I am still Benno Siggil Senegaal’s candidate. One camp is with Moustapha Niasse and another is backing me,” he said.<\/p>\n
Two other party leaders in the fractious coalition had already declared their intention to contest the election independently: Macky Sall, another former prime minister who heads the Alliance for the Republic (APR), and Cheikh Bamba Dieye, leader of the Front for Socialism and Democracy (FSD).<\/p>\n
More than a dozen smaller candidates have also thrown their hats in the ring but their applications have yet to be approved by the constitutional council.<\/p>\n
Abdoulaye Wade was first elected for seven years in 2000 and reelected in 2007 for five years, after a constitutional reform shortened presidential terms.<\/p>\n
The seven-year term was reintroduced in another constitutional amendment in 2008, prompting the opposition to argue that Wade’s fresh bid was illegal. – ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\nAllAfrica – All the Time<\/p>\n
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