Opposition members of the National Assembly in Senegal staged a protest over the recently cancelled election date.
In a heated session on Monday evening (February 5), the MPs stormed the podium in front of the Speaker after they disagreed with his controversial count on those in support of the cancellation of the February election date by the president.
The MPs massed up at the podium in defiant mode and no amount of caution to resume their seats will be heeded as they chanted slogans against the move.
Eventually, armed and masked policemen were invited into the chamber to escort the MPs out.
Despite some minimal resistance on the part of some of the MPs, the process was largely incident-free as the police came from one end and shepherded them out through an alternative exit.
Protests broke out in the West African nation on Monday following an announcement over the weekend by President Macky Sall that much-awaited polls would not hold and that they had been postponed indefinitely.
Sall is not eligible to run and has endorsed his Prim Miniter Amadu Ba as the ruling coalition candidate.
Watch the video below:
Unbelievable scenes in the National Assembly. Here is the footage of members of the opposition being forcibly removed by the Police. This is our democracy under Macky Sall. Im so disgusted. #FreeSenegal pic.twitter.com/nVerEB8gTw
— Certified Sneaker Girl🇸🇳 (@NestaWane) February 5, 2024
