{"id":39416,"date":"2026-07-13T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39416"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:40:26","slug":"senegal-court-rejects-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-court-rejects-constitutional-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal court rejects constitutional amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Senegal&#8217;s Constitutional Court has struck down a constitutional amendment bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Apex court ruled against the parliament-backed amendment bill, declaring it unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The proposed changes included a provision prohibiting a sitting president from serving as leader of a political party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The push for constitutional reform has been driven by the ruling Pastef party, led by parliament speaker and former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39416","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Senegal's Constitutional Court","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39416","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\/39416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39417,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39416\/revisions\/39417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}