Exiled Senegalese opposition leader Karim Wade, an ex-minister and the son of former head of state Abdoulaye Wade, Saturday said he had filed papers to contest presidential elections in February.
Wade’s Democratic Party had designated him as its presidential candidate but doubts had remained due to his sentencing to a jail term for corruption in 2015.
President Sall pardoned Wade in 2016 and Wade has been living in exile in Qatar.
Wade’s criminal record had prevented him from standing in the 2019 election which saw Sall re-elected.
Senegal’s parliament in August voted to restore the eligibility of Wade and another opposition figure, former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, following President Sall’s initiation of a political dialogue.
Khalifa Sall was imprisoned in 2017 and given a five-year jail term for fraud but released in 2019 after receiving a pardon like Wade.
Over 200 candidates have filed papers to contest the 12th presidential election.
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