DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s electoral commission on Monday urged presidential candidates and their supporters to avoid making premature declarations about the outcome of Sunday’s vote. The call came after Senegal’s prime minister claimed that the party’s unofficial results showed incumbent president Macky Sall had won re-election. “We congratulate the people who have mainly expressed their choice in favour of the opposition,” said Seck. The official provisional results announced by Senegal’s National Census of Votes Commission are not expected until Thursday or Friday, according to Demba Kandji, chairman of the commission. The missions called on all actors to show restraint in order to preserve the peace that has marked Senegal’s vote.

Source: National Post February 25, 2019 08:51 UTC