{"id":89715,"date":"2026-05-26T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89715"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:04","slug":"senegals-sacked-pm-sonko-elected-parliamentary-speaker-in-challenge-to-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/26\/senegals-sacked-pm-sonko-elected-parliamentary-speaker-in-challenge-to-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal&#8217;s sacked PM Sonko elected parliamentary Speaker in challenge to president"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/25f6\/live\/477b7840-58f2-11f1-8b8c-6d33e1d5abb6.jpg\" alt=\"A head and shoulders shot of Ousmane Sonko wearing glasses and in a black cap and buttoned-up blue shirt.\" width=\"611\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Senegal&#8217;s former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who was dramatically sacked on Friday by the president, has been elected Speaker of the national parliament setting up a possible source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg4pppq12nvo?at_format=link&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_link_id=8301270E-58F5-11F1-B31C-EECD8119371B&amp;at_campaign_type=owned\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Senegal&#8217;s former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who was dramatically sacked on Friday by the president, has been elected Speaker of the national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sonko.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89716,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89715\/revisions\/89716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}