Senegalese PM Calls For Vengeance After Election Campaign Clashes He blamed the attacks on supporters of Dakar mayor Barthelemy Dias, who heads a rival coalition.
Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday called for vengeance following what he described as attacks against supporters of his Pastef party by the opposition during the campaign for Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Sonko, who has been head of the government since it took office in April, spoke of clashes in the capital Dakar, the northern city of Saint-Louis and the central town of Koungheul. He blamed the attacks on supporters of Dakar mayor Barthelemy Dias, who heads a rival coalition. “Let every aggression suffered by Pastef on their part since the start of the campaign, let every patriot they have attacked and injured be proportionally avenged,” Sonko wrote in a Facebook post. “We will exercise our legitimate right to retaliate.” Sonko said that complaints had been filed but that there had been “zero arrests”. “Barthelemy Dias and his coalition should no longer campaign in this country,” he said. A meeting of Pastef party supporters is scheduled for later Tuesday near
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