Dakar,
April 10 (NNN-APS) Fifteen political groups or coalitions of parties
have filed their lists of candidates with the Interior ministry for the
June 3 legislative elections.

The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of organizing the
elections, has three days after receiving the lists on Friday to
validate the lists based on accepted criteria.

Several political parties of the opposition have decided to boycott
the June legislative elections as they consider the Feb 25 presidential
polls won by President Abdoulaye Wade with 55.90 of the cast, was an
"electoral masquerade".

These parties are the most significant ones in the opposition
because they represent more the 40 per cent of popular support
according to the result of the last presidential election.

They demand the cleaning of the electoral rolls and the creation of
an independent national electoral commission in the place of the
autonomous national electoral commission (CENA) whose performance did
not satisfy them during the presidential polls.