THE coalition backing Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade, winner of a historic presidential election in March 2000, seems to have swept early legislative elections. According to first results issued during the night the Sopi (Change) coalition built around Wade’s liberal Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) was well ahead of its adversaries, political analysts said. With nearly 50 percent of votes counted, the Sopi headquarters said it had scored some 59 percent of the ballots which would give it an “overwhelming majority” of the 120 assembly seats. – AFP