Breaking News: Senegal constitutional council finds election delay was unlawful
Senegal’s Constitutional Council has ruled that parliament’s postponement of the Feb. 25 presidential election to December was not in line with the constitution, council minutes showed on Thursday. Opposition presidential candidates and lawmakers had filed a number of legal challenges to last week’s parliamentary bill, which also extended President Macky Sall’s mandate in what critics said amounted to an "institutional coup."
Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque joins Al Jazeera’s live from Dakar.
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