The movement warned that such a tendency is likely to undermine national cohesion in Senegal.
“Voting for the brotherhood, voting for the region and voting for the ethnic group undermines national cohesion and we cannot continue to turn a blind eye as if nothing had happened. This is very worrying,” the coordinator of the movement, Fadel Barro said.
Speaking to the press on Tuesday at the Y’a en Marre headquarters in the district of Parcelles assainies, Barro accused leading politicians, including the head of state of being at the heart of this supposed trend.
The victor of the polls with 58.26 percent of the vote, according to the Constitutional Council, President Macky Sall, outperformed his opponents in the north of the country, particularly in Matam from where he hails, and in the centre, especially in Fatick, where he was born in 1961.
Ousmane Sonko, who finished third, leads in the three departments of Ziguinchor (south) from where he came, while Idrissa Seck, at second, won the vote in Touba (centre), the capital of the Mouride brotherhood.
Commenting on the opposition’s refusal to file an appeal with the Constitutional Council, Fadel Barro said that their reluctance stemmed from a lack of trust in the body.
“It (the opposition) has repeatedly filed appeals with the Constitutional Council without a single successful appeal,” Barro, surrounded by other members of the movement said.
Meanwhile, as soon as his victory was confirmed by the Constitutional Council on Tuesday, President Sall issued an appeal for dialogue with all the country’s leading lights, including the opposition and his predecessors Abdoulaye Wade and Abdou Diouf, with a view to building “a better Senegal.”