President Sall says the Senegal election cost 14 billion CFA.
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The president, whose tenure ends on 2 April when the new president-elect, Bassirou Faye, takes over, said while democracy remains the best form of government, the process of choosing leaders is quite ruinous to the economy of African nations.The president who appeared content with the way the elections went even though the candidate of his party, former Prime Minister Amadou Ba, lost, said he was happy to have overseen a peaceful and successful election.
The judges had also vetoed the demands of leading Islamic clerics in the country to postpone voting until after Ramadan.