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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>A judge in the southern town of Ziguinchor on Thursday evening overturned the removal of imprisoned opposition politician Ousmane Sonko from Senegal\u2019s electoral rolls, preventing him from standing as a presidential candidate, his lawyers and his dissolved party said.<\/b><\/p>\n

Lawyers for Mr. Sonko, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, said their client could once again stand for election in February 2024. In a statement published by news websites, however, the State\u2019s judicial agent said that the State would appeal against the judge\u2019s decision and that Mr. Sonko could still not be a candidate.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Mr. Sonko\u2019s lawyers challenged his disbarment before a court in Ziguinchor, the town where he is mayor and where he was registered. This action was presented by part of the press as representing the opponent\u2019s last chance to stand as a candidate.<\/p>\n

The court \u201cdeclared Mr. Ousmane Sonko\u2019s removal from the electoral rolls null and void and ordered his reinstatement, which should take immediate effect\u201d, one of his defenders, Me Cire\u0301 Cle\u0301dor Ly, said in a message on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ziguinchor district court ruled on the law and only on the law (…) There was no justification for removing President Ousmane Sonko from the electoral rolls,\u201d said El Malick Ndiaye, a leading figure in Mr. Sonko\u2019s dissolved party.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sonko was found guilty on June 1 of debauching a minor and sentenced to two years in prison. Having refused to appear at the trial, which he denounced as a plot to keep him out of the election, he was sentenced in absentia.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sonko was imprisoned at the end of July on other charges, including calling for insurrection, criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise and undermining state security.<\/p>\n

The authorities are questioning his responsibility in a series of protest episodes since 2021 \u2013 the most serious in June \u2013 which have resulted in several deaths.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. A judge in the southern town of Ziguinchor on Thursday evening overturned the removal of imprisoned opposition politician Ousmane Sonko from Senegal\u2019s electoral rolls, preventing him from standing as a presidential candidate, his lawyers and his dissolved party said. 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