Fears of mass demonstrations after leading oppositionist excluded from next month s elections.
, Confirmation that opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, will not be on the ballot for February s presidential elections came after the electoral commission announced the 20 candidates who have been approved to contest the first round on 25 February.
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More opposition candidates are joining the race and pressuring the electoral commission to make urgent reforms, Opposition leader Martin Fayulu has confirmed that he will contest presidential elections due in December, paving the way for a contest that would repeat the line-up of the elections in 2019, which many independent observers judged him to have won. Fayulu s Engagement for Citizenship and Development party has filed papers confirming his candidacy, officials have said.