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Senegal votes in election that will decide if president can carry out the reforms he promised
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FILE - Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye attends a press conference in Dakar, Senegal, Aug. 29, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Annie Risemberg, File
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Polls opened in Senegal on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is set to determine if the country’s newly elected president can carry out ambitious reforms. More than 7 million registered voters in the West African country are choosing 165 lawmakers in the national assembly, where the party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye currently does not hold a majority. Faye, who was elected in March on an anti-establishment platform, says that has blocked him from executing the reforms he pledged during his campaign, including fighting corruption, reviewing fishing permits for foreign companies and securing a bigger share from the country’s natural resources for the population.