First democratic transition

19 mars 2000 · Dakar

On 19 March 2000, for the first time since independence, Senegal changed its ruling party at the ballot box. Abdoulaye Wade won the election with 58% of the vote, ending forty years of Socialist Party rule. Not a single shot was fired. That day, Senegal showed that democracy can work in Africa.

Sources

• Persée — Monika Salzbrunn, « La campagne présidentielle sénégalaise en France » (Hommes & Migrations, 2002)
• Le Soleil — 19 mars 2000, coup de grâce à 40 ans de règne socialiste

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