The last Sunday election result in Senegal which opposition leaders said was tainted by fraud has been released with President Macky Sall’s ruling coalition winning a large parliamentary majority.

 According to official provisional results announced on the national television late Friday, Sall’s ruling coalition took 125 seats out of the165-seat in the National Assembly after winning nearly 50 percent of the vote.

The coalition of 91-year-old former president Abdoulaye Wade, whom Sall defeated in a 2012 presidential election that cemented Senegal’s reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies, won 19 seats.

A coalition led by jailed Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall won seven seats.

Last Sunday’s vote was marred by delays in issuing biometric identity cards that prevented hundreds of voters from casting their ballots; part of what opposition leaders said was an intensifying clampdown on political opposition.

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