A press release from the Minister, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Oumar Samba Ba, released on Friday, November 3, mentions that Inspector General of State Abdoulaye Sylla and Magistrate Ndary Touré, both retired, were respectively appointed President and Vice President of the National Autonomous Electoral Commission (CENA)

Le nouveau président de la CENA est un ingénieur des travaux d' aménagement du territoire diplômé de l' ex-École nationale d' economy applied (current) High school Rioure économie d') from Senegal. Indeed, the appointment of the new members of CENA came amid a controversy relating to the refusal of the Directorate General of Elections (DGE) to hand over to Ousmane Sonko's proxy the tools with which the opponent must collect sponsorships in order to run for the presidential election. A decree of the President of the Republic indicated that, in addition to Abdoulaye Sylla and Ndary Touré, university professor Aminata Fall Niang, journalist Ndeye Rokhaya Mbodji, Mamadou Bocar Niane, a teacher, notary Aïssatou Sow, and decentralization adviser Fatou Kiné Diop were also appointed members of CENA