Senegal's President Macky Sall arrives for the closing session of the New Global Financial Pact Summit, on June 23, 2023, in Paris. (PHOTO / AP)
DAKAR – Senegalese President Macky Sall announced on Monday his decision not to run for a third term in 2024.
"My long and carefully considered decision is not to be a candidate for the next election on February 25, 2024 … even if the Constitution gives me the right to do so," he said in a speech to the nation.
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"Contrary therefore to the rumors which attributed to me a new presidential ambition, I would like to say that I have a clear conscience and memory of what I have said, written and repeated here and elsewhere, that is to say, that the mandate of 2019 was my second and last term," said Sall.
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He promised to assume with responsibility and firmness all the charges relating to his function before the handover of power to the future President of the Republic, on April 2, 2024.
Sall was first elected to the presidency in 2012 and re-elected in 2019.