{"id":33284,"date":"2026-04-29T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33284"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:12:32","slug":"senegals-parliament-approves-electoral-reforms","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senegals-parliament-approves-electoral-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal\u2019s parliament approves electoral reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Senegalese National Assembly has approved changes to the country&#8217;s electoral code.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The country has \u200bintroduced provisions that could pave the way \u200cfor Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to run in the 2029 presidential election.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The legislation amends provisions that had previously disqualified Sonko from running for office, potentially removing a key legal \u200bobstacle to \u200bhis candidacy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u2060bill will now be sent to the president, who must decide whether to \u200bsign it into law.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33285,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-33284","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Senegalese National Assembly","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33286,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33284\/revisions\/33286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}