{"id":8945,"date":"2023-12-23T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2023-12-23T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:27:04","slug":"exiled-wade-to-vie-for-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/exiled-wade-to-vie-for-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiled Wade to Vie for Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exiled Senegalese opposition figure Karim Wade, an ex-minister and the son of former head of state Abdoulaye Wade, Saturday said he had filed papers to contest presidential elections in February.<br \/>\nWade&#8217;s Democratic Party had designated him as its candidate but doubts had remained due to his sentencing to a jail term for corruption in 2015, three years after current President Macky Sall took office.<br \/>\nSall pardoned him in 2016 and Wade has been living in exile in Qatar.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am happy to announce that my candidacy for the presidential election on February 25 was submitted&#8221; overnight, Wade said on X, formerly known as Twitter.<br \/>\nWade&#8217;s criminal record had prevented him from standing in the 2019 election which saw Sall re-elected.<br \/>\nBut in August parliament voted to restore the eligibility of Wade and another opposition figure, former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, following President Sall&#8217;s initiation of a political dialogue that was boycotted by various opposition groups.<br \/>\nKhalifa Sall, unrelated to the president, was imprisoned in 2017 and given a five-year jail term for fraud but released in 2019 after receiving a pardon like Wade.<br \/>\nMore than 200 candidates have filed papers to contest the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Exiled Senegalese opposition figure Karim Wade, an ex-minister and the son of former head of state Abdoulaye Wade, Saturday said he had filed papers to contest presidential elections in February. Wade&#8217;s Democratic Party had designated him as its candidate but doubts had remained due to his sentencing to a jail &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}