Senegal’s President calls snap election for November, dissolves Parliament

Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has dissolved the opposition-led parliament on Thursday, paving the way for a snap legislative election six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform. The new election will take place Nov. 17, Faye said in a televised address in which he asked voters to give his party a mandate so that he can carry out the “systemic transformation that I promised.” The Benno opposition pary Bokk Yaakar led by former President Macky Sall said Faye had convened a legislative session under false pretenses in order to announce the dissolution of Parliament and accused him of “perjury.”