Ahmad 
Senegal’s Constitutional Court has issued a decision invalidating the postponement of presidential elections from February 25 to December 15, in light of one of the most serious crises the country has been experiencing in decades.
The court ruled unconstitutional the law passed by the National Assembly that delayed the elections for 10 months and kept President Macky Sall in office until a successor was elected.
Presidential candidates and opposition lawmakers filed a number of legal challenges to the parliamentary bill last week, which also extends the president’s term that critics have described as amounting to an “institutional coup”.
The Constitutional Court also annulled President Sall’s decree amending the electoral timetable just three weeks ahead of schedule.