A court in Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko's stronghold of Ziguinchor has ordered his reinstatement to electoral lists. The decision paves the way for Sonko to be a presidential candidate.
The judge of the administrative court cancelled Sonko's removal from the electoral lists on Thursday evening. It also ordered his reinstatement.The politician remains under arrest in hospital in Dakar following a 45-day hunger strike that ended early in September for health reasons.
He was hospitalised on 6 August and admitted to an intensive care unit. He remains under arrest, his party spokesmen told RFI.Eight lawyers took the stand to explain why the removal of their client from the electoral lists was illegitimate. Sonko was accused of sexual misconduct and morally corrupting a young woman in the spring, and arrested multiple times, which sparked violent clashes between supporters and the police.On 1 June, Sonko was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison, which the government claimed makes him ineligible to stand in next year's presidential elections.
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