Until recently the leading contender for the PDS presidential nomination had been Macky Sall the Speaker of the National Assembly who was Abdoulaye Wade's Prime Minister in 2004-2007 and ran Wade's re-election campaign...
His latest prime minister Macky Sall was named in April to replace Idrissa Seck respected and powerful deputy leader of Wade's Parti Démocratique Sénégalais (PDS)...
The new Minister of Mining Energy and Water Macky Sall is a PDS activist as are Aminata Tall who stays on as Social Development and National Solidarity Minister and Modou Fada Diagne who at 32 remains the PDS's rising star and heads an expanded Youth Environment and Public Hygiene Ministry...