The number of applications submitted to the Constitutional Council has not been made public, but Le Soleil explains that the body that receives the deposit cheques of 45,000 euros required to run for the presidency, received 79 applications.

The applications include those of the main favourites for the 25 February 2024 election: Amadou Ba, a member of the ruling coalition and Senegal’s current prime minister, imprisoned opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, Karim Wade (son of former president Abdoulaye Wade) and Idrissa Seck, who came second in the 2019 presidential election.

President since 2012, Macky Sall announced in July that he would not run for another term. He has appointed Amadou Ba to represent the majority.