Senegal's parliament has passed a vote that restores the right of two key Opposition Figures, Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade, to run in the upcoming presidential election. The vote allows individuals who have been convicted but pardoned or granted amnesty to stand for office. Sall, a former mayor of Dakar, and Wade, son of a former president, were unable to run in the 2019 election due to separate convictions on financial issues. Observers hope this decision will ease tensions in the country ahead of the presidential vote next year.

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