00:00What do you say? Which month, Sonko?
00:02Senegal's National Assembly has elected outside Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko as his speaker
00:07in a vote boy courted by the opposition.
00:09The move comes just four days after President Basilio Di Maia fired Sonko as Prime Minister.
00:15Opposition lawmakers call his return to Parliament illegal,
00:19accusing the ruling majority of engineering what they describe as an institutional coup.
00:24Sonko remains the dominant figure in past 10, which controls 130 of the 165 seats
00:30in the single-chamber legislature.
00:32In Tuesday's vote, he won 132 ballots in his favour with no votes against and one abstention.
00:38He was the sole candidate and received a long ovation.
00:42He replaces ally El Malik Ndiaye, who resigned on Sunday, clearing the way for Sonko's election.
00:48President Fai, seen as Sonko's former protege, now faces the challenge of delivering reforms
00:55in a country burdened by serious economic difficulties and heavy public debt
00:59after appointing economist Amadou Al-Aminu Mohamed Law as the new Prime Minister.
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