PAST PRESIDENTS OF SENEGAL TILL DATE

This post discusses the past presidents of Senegal till date, it also explain the term duration and the limits for each of them in office.

The president of Senegal is the head of state and head of government of Senegal. In accordance with the constitutional reform of 2001 and since a referendum that took place on 20 March 2016, the president is elected for a 5-year term, with a limit of two consecutive terms. The following is a list of presidents of Senegal, since the country gained independence from France in 1960.

TERM

Term duration

In January 2001, during Abdoulaye Wade’s first term, a constitutional referendum reduced the presidential term from seven to five years.

Read: POLITICAL HISTORY OF SENEGAL

In July 2008, during Wade’s second term, the National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment increasing the length of the presidential term to seven years, as it was prior to the adoption of the 2001 constitution. This extension didn’t apply to Abdoulaye Wade’s 2007–2012 term.

In 2016, during Macky Sall’s first term, per another constitutional referendum, the length of the presidential term was decreased back to five years. The amendments were adopted in constitutional law № 2016-10

Term limits

As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Senegal. There was an attempt to modify the term limits in 2012 for Abdoulaye Wade, but it did not materialize.

PRESIDENTS OF SENEGAL (1960–PRESENT)

No.			Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Political party	Prime minister(s)
					Took office	Left office	Time in office
1			Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001)	1963 1968 1973 1978	6 September 1960	31 December 1980	20 years, 115 days	PSS	Mamadou Dia Abdou Diouf
2			Abdou Diouf (born 1935)	1983 1988 1993	1 January 1981	1 April 2000	19 years, 91 days	PSS	Habib Thiam Moustapha Niasse Habib Thiam Moustapha Niasse
3			Abdoulaye Wade (born 1926)	2000 2007	1 April 2000	2 April 2012	12 years, 1 day	PDS	Moustapha Niasse Mame Madior Boye Idrissa Seck Macky Sall Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye
4			Macky Sall (born 1961)	2012 2019	2 April 2012	Incumbent	11 years, 80 days	APR	Abdoul Mbaye Aminata Touré Mohamed Dionne Amadou Ba