Opposition Predicts Victory in Senegal’s Poll

A spokesperson says Senegal’s main opposition presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye will win Sunday’s vote in the first round. El Hadj Malick Ndiaye says the margin will be as high as 60 percent. Diomaye Faye represents main opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s PASTEF party. Both men were released from incarceration about two weeks before the election. There are 17 other presidential candidates, including the ruling party. Diomaye Faye’s spokesman Malick Ndiaye, tells VOA’s James Butty, Senegalese voters have been yearning for change, and they believe PASTEF is the party that will deliver the goods.