Polling stations opened across Senegal on Sunday, as the country votes for its members in the National Assembly, just months after former opposition leader Macky Sall was sworn in as President of the West African nation. Voters are electing 90 members of parliament out of 150 seats in the lower house. The remaining 60 are chosen from individual party lists. Sall's Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition is widely expected to scoop a parliamentary majority, with the stiffest competition expected to come from former president Abdoulaye Wade's Senegalese Democracy Party, according to a report of DPA. As many as 7,200 candidates are standing for election in the country of 13 million. Sall, sworn into office in April, is the fourth president of Senegal since independence in 1960. The first election results are expected on Monday.
