Senegal: What will turnover bring?

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 121-131

  Kelly, Catherine Lena ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84864053771     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2012.0048     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. "Félicitations après une élection apaisée et transparente-Sarkozy rend hommage à Wade et tend la main à Macky Sall, " Walfadjri (Dakar), 27 March 2012.
2. "Senegal's Election: Lucky Macky, " Economist, 7 April 2012.
3. "Une campagne électorale à sang à l'heure: 10 morts déjà, " L'Observateur (Dakar), 17 February 2012.
4. "Senegal: Intimidation and Arrests of Protestors One Week Before Presidential Elections, " Amnesty International Public Statement, 17 February 2012, www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR49/002/2012/en/be82e93b-b961-4de6-ad46-a13d5819278d/afr490022012en.html.
5. Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, "The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism, " Journal of Democracy 13 (April 2002): 52.
6. For instance, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson congratulated Senegal on being "a good example of democracy" on the continent. See "Johnnie Carson, Sous-Secrétaire d'Etat Américain: 'Nous saluons le bel exemple de démocratie à Sénégal,'" Le Soleil (Dakar), 28 February 2012.
7. Bacary Domingo Mane, "Salaires et voitures rutilantes au profit des magistrats-Le RTA/S déverse sa colère, " Sud Quotidien (Dakar), 10 January 2012.
8. Ismaila Madior Fall, "Senegal, " in Fall et al., eds., Election Management Bodies in West Africa: A Comparative Study of the Contributions of Electoral Commissions to the Strengthening of Democracy (Dakar: Open Society Foundations, 2011), 176.
9. Fall, "Senegal, " 174.
10. The Mission d'audit du fichier électoral occurred in 2010. There had been an internal (but not independent) audit in 2007. See "L'alliance sopi pour toujours répond à Bennoo-'Toutes les initiatives de l'Etat pour fiabiliser le système électoral ont été combattues par l'opposition,'" Le Soleil, 20 February 2010.
11. U.S. Department of State, 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Senegal.
12. U.S. Department of State, 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Senegal.
13. U.S. Department of State, 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Senegal.
14. U.S. Department of State, 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Senegal.
15. Abdou Latif Coulibaly, Wade, un opposant au pouvoir: L'alternance piégée? (Dakar: Editions Sentinelles, 2003). On the death threat, see U.S. Department of State, 2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
16. Author interviews, Dakar, September 2011 to April 2012.
17. "Rapport General des Assises Nationales du Sénégal-Résumé, " Dakar: Assises Nationales, 23 May 2009.
18. "Wade s'asseoit sur les cadavers: 6 morts en 5 jours de contestation, " Le Quotidien (Dakar), 1 February 2012.
19. "Alioune Tine après sa libération, " L'Observateur, 31 January 2012.
20. "Enquête sur une presumée atteinte à la sureté de l'état: Idy attendu à la DIC, " L'Observateur, 24 February 2012.
21. Aliou Niane, "La répression politique comme arme de dissuasion, " La Gazette (Dakar), 18 February 2012, 11.
22. Papa Adama Touré, "Tirez, on vous couvre!" La Gazette, 19 February 2012, 12-13.
23. "La zawiya profané, le pays s'embrase, " Le Populaire (Dakar), 18 February 2012.
24. Denise Zarour Medang, "La police charge Bamba Dièye, Ibrahima Fall, et Idrissa Seck, " Sud Quotidien, 20 February 2012.
25. One hypothesis is that Wade convinced the Constitutional Court to reject N'dour, who threatened Wade's victory with his popularity, his newly founded political movement, and his private media empire.
26. "Macky Sall-Bennoo bokk yaakaar, les premières fissures, " L'Observateur, 21 March 2012.
27. Here I am referring not to the PDS, which is now also an opposition party, but to the PS, Niasse's AFP, and Seck's Rewmi, as well as up to fifty smaller signatories of the Assises.