Abdoulaye Bathily

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Abdoulaye Bathily (born 1947) is a Senegalese politician and the secretary general of the Democratic League/Movement for the Labour Party.^[1]

Bathily ran for president for the first time in February 1993, taking fourth place with 2.41% of the vote.^[2] From 1993 to 1998, Bathily served as environment minister during the presidency of Abdou Diouf. Following the victory of Abdoulaye Wade in the 2000 presidential election, Bathily became minister of energy and hydraulics, remaining in that post until 2001.^[1]

Bathily ran again in the February 2007 presidential election as the candidate of the Jubbanti Sénégal coalition,^[1] taking sixth place with 2.21% of the vote, according to official results.^[3] Bathily's campaign rejected the results and alleged that there were flaws in the voting, saying that a person could be registered more than once, and that the ink used in voting, which was supposed to be indelible, could be washed off.^[4] Along with Socialist Party candidate Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Bathily filed an appeal regarding the election, but their appeals were rejected by the Constitutional Council.^[3]

He was briefly detained by police in late January 2007, along with other opposition leaders, after participating in a banned protest regarding the delaying of parliamentary elections until June.^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Abdoulaye Bathily, un ancien allié de Wade à l’assaut du pouvoir", African Press Agency, February 5, 2007 (French).
2. ^ Elections in Senegal, African Elections Database.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Le texte intégral de la décision du Conseil constitutionnel", Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Seneweb.com), March 11, 2007 (French).
4. ^ Diadie Ba, "Senegal's Wade re-elected, warns opposition", Reuters (Mail & Guardian Online), March 2, 2007.
5. ^ "Police free Senegalese opposition leaders", African Press Agency, January 27, 2007.

[edit] External link

• 2007 campaign website