The 2012 Legislative Elections in Senegal

On July 1, 2012, Senegal held legislative elections to selectall 150 members of the twelfth National Assembly, the lowerchamber—and the only fully elected one—in this West Africancountry of approximately twelve million people. Thelegislative elections followed a hotly contested presidentialelection in which Abdoulaye Wade, president over the lasttwelve years, sought a controversial third term and lost by ahistoric margin. Wade and other leaders of his SenegaleseDemocratic Party (PDS) sought a legislative majority thatwould force the new president, Macky Sall, into cohabitation.

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