People in Senegal are voting in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country’s president will be able to carry out ambitious reforms, six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform.

Senegal headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in legislative elections that the president hopes will give his party a clear majority and the means to implement an ambitious agenda for reforms. The heated campaign period has revived concerns about unrest as political rivals clashed,

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is seeking to consolidate his grip on power in parliamentary elections. Verisk Maplecroft Senior Risk Analyst for We Mucahid Durmaz talks to Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja about the vote.