A statement issued after a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday noted that the government has also been dissolved with a new prime minister announced.
President Macky Sall, who faces term limits at the end of his second period in office, said in early February that he was postponing an election for 10 months, just weeks before it was set to take place on February 25.
But Senegal’s highest election authority, the Constitutional Council, rejected that move and ordered the government to set a new election date as soon as possible.
“The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers of the setting of the date of the presidential election for Sunday, March 24, 2024,” government spokesperson Abdou Karim Fofana said in the statement.
“The President of the Republic also informed the Prime Minister and ministers of the formation of a new Government."