He’s banking on the country’s 6.5 million voters favoring him over three other candidates because of impressive infrastructure projects introduced since he took power in 2012.

Today elections are the first since Senegalese voted in a referendum to reduce the presidential term from seven to five years. 

There’s unhappiness that Sall’s two major rival Karim Wade – son of former president Abdoulaye Wade – and former Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall have been excluded from running because of corruption convictions.

Sall’s banking on voters showing their appreciation for delivery of a new long bridge between Gambia and Senegal, a new airport, a futuristic city of Diamniado, a railway and the Museum of African History.

More than half the population who live under the poverty line say these projects do to alleviate their plight.

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