By Paul Ejime |Senegal’s Constitutional Council late Thursday overturned the controversial law recently passed by parliament postponing the country’s presidential election scheduled for 25 February. In a statement, the Council, whose decisions cannot be appealed against also voided a presidential decree on the postponed presidential vote. The Council described as unconstitutional the decree and the law passed after opposition MPs were ejected from the floor of the parliamentary Chambers. The postponement of the vote had been greeted by street protests, resulting in at least three deaths. No official reason was given for the cancellation, but diplomatic sources said that Senegalese government views the political crisis as an internal matter.
