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Analyst: Economy not key in Senegal’s snap election


Analyst: Economy not key in Senegal’s snap election
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Senegal's President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye last week announced snap elections after he dissolved the country's parliament. Reuters reports that analysts say Senegal's slower economic growth, its widening fiscal deficit and a potential delay in International Monetary Fund financing could cloud the outlook ahead of the Nov. 17 parliamentary elections. Rene Lake is a political analyst and Director of SENEPLUS.COM, a US-based media group. He tells VOA’s Douglas Mpuga that although economic issues are real, they will not be the key question in this parliamentary election

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