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After Sonko's conviction, protests started in several cities on 1 June 2023. On 2 June, Sonko's PASTEF-Patriots Party urged the populace to resist until President Sall resigned. The protests in Dakar 's Ouakam and Ngor districts became violent, which overwhelmed the local police, and looting occurred.
Members of Sonko's dissolved Pastef party and other parties formed a coalition and picked Faye as a candidate in November. Sonko himself was disqualified over a defamation conviction he said was ...
Ousmane Sonko (Wolof: Usmaan Sonko; born 15 July 1974) is a Senegalese politician and former tax official who is serving as the 16th prime minister of Senegal since 2024. He is also the leader of PASTEF ever since the party was founded in January 2014. Sonko was the PASTEF candidate in the 2019 presidential election, ultimately
In 2017, PASTEF joined the People's Alternative coalition for the legislative elections of that same year. [9] This coalition is made up of several parties including: PASTEF, RND, MRDS, and others. During the final results, with 1.13% of the votes Ousmane Sonko - at the head of this coalition is elected deputy of the department of Dakar.
Senegal's electoral commission on Tuesday asked that sponsorship forms be given to main opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, whose candidacy for the upcoming presidential election has been called into ...
Senegal’s popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko was named as the prime minister in the new government on Tuesday, hours after his key ally was sworn in as president. A former tax inspector ...
On 14 July, Ousmane Sonko was announced as the presidential candidate for PASTEF.Sonko's eligibility as a candidate was unclear due to him receiving a two-year prison sentence in June 2023, rendering him ineligible to run according to some legal experts; although it was noted he had not exhausted his appeals to the Supreme Court, which could reverse his sentence. [15]
The party was banned in 2023 after Sonko's arrest for insurrection, a decree that was repealed after PASTEF's General Secretary Bassirou Diomaye Faye won the 2024 presidential election. In March 2023, Fall released a podcast episode in which she criticized President Macky Sall regarding the country's economic and political freedom.