The decision for mass mobilisation comes as a significant political upheaval continues within the normally steady West African nation.
A coalition of Senegalese civil society teams on Thursday known as for mass mobilisation in opposition to the delay to this month’s presidential ballot, outlining a collection of deliberate actions together with a protest and strike.
The usually steady West African nation has plunged into its worst political upheaval in many years after lawmakers backed President Macky Sall’s determination to postpone the February 25 election till mid-December.
“We invite all residents involved by the preservation of democratic features to mobilise en masse all through the nation and within the diaspora to forestall this seizure of energy,” the newly fashioned platform Aar Sunu Election (Let’s shield our election) mentioned in an announcement.
The collective consists of some 40 citizen, non secular, {and professional} teams, together with a number of training unions.
“A serious demonstration is deliberate for Tuesday,” Malick Diop, who described himself as one of many platform’s coordinators, informed journalists in Dakar.
The audio system on the occasion additionally talked about a name for a normal strike on an unspecified date and a walkout within the training sector from Friday.
The platform known as on Muslims to attend Friday prayers carrying white and flying the nationwide colors.
The decision comes as West African overseas ministers are holding emergency talks in Nigeria’s capital Abuja to debate the political disaster in Senegal.
Forward of Thursday’s assembly, the Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS) has urged Senegal – one in every of its most steady member states – to return to its election timetable. However critics have already questioned the group’s sway over more and more defiant member states.
