Dakar - Senegal's Constitutional Court has released the final results
for the West African country's first round of presidential elections.
The
results read to journalists on Tuesday reconfirmed provisional results
from last week that dealt President Abdoulaye Wade a significant blow.
Senegal's ageing leader, who had boasted he would win the race outright,
will have to face his former protege in a run-off election on March 25.
Senegal's electoral code calls for a run-off if no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote.
The
Constitutional Court says that Wade received 942 327 votes, or 34.81%.
It says ex-Prime Minister Macky Sall finished second with 719 367 votes,
or 26.58%.
The race has been marred by violence, and for weeks
leading up to the first-round vote on February 26 police battled
rock-throwing youth calling for Wade's departure.
- SAPA
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