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Senegal’s Constitutional Council has declared the controversial postponement of the presidential election to be unconstitutional. The election was originally scheduled for February 25, but at the beginning of the month President Macky Sall unexpectedly postponed the vote indefinitely, referring to investigations into allegations of corruption in the preparation of the candidate lists. A majority of Senegal’s parliament agreed to postpone the election to December 15. On Thursday evening, the Constitutional Council ruled that Sall’s second term of office, which ends on April 2, may not be extend…

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