Senegal’s Faye dissolves parliament and sets elections for November | Politics News

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The president, citing reform roadblocks, said working with the opposition-led assembly had become difficult.

Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has dissolved the opposition-led parliament, paving the way for snap elections six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform.

Faye said working with the assembly had grown difficult after members refused to start discussions on the budget law and rejected efforts to dissolve wasteful state institutions.

“I dissolve the national assembly to ask the sovereign people for the institutional means to bring about the…



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