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Chad: Chad's Parliamentary Election Hands Mahamat Déby Absolute Control. Here's Why It's Dangerous
The Conversation Africa, 29 January 2025
Chad held parliamentary elections in late December 2024. The final results released on 21 January 2025 gave the well-established former ruling party, the Movement Patriotique du… Read more »
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Chad: Chad Opposition Protests Final Election Results Won By Transitional President's Party
VOA, 23 January 2025
Chad's Constitutional Council has ignored opposition calls to set aside results of last month's parliamentary elections for gross irregularities and fraud, and proclaimed the… Read more »
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Chad: Chadian Opposition Says Elections Should Be Canceled, Calls for New Transition
VOA, 31 December 2024
An uneasy calm hangs over Chad, where the opposition is calling for an immediate end to the country's transitional government and the cancellation of the Dec. 29 general elections,… Read more »
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Chad: Chad Opposition, Civil Society Vow to Disrupt Sunday Elections
VOA, 27 December 2024
Tensions continue to mount in Chad, with opposition and so-called civil society groups vowing to disrupt Sunday's local council, regional and parliamentary elections. The groups… Read more »
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Chad: Ruling Party Wins Majority in Chad's Legislative Election As Opposition Boycott Polls
RFI, 13 January 2025
Chad's ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement has secured a significant majority in December's parliamentary elections, further bolstering President Mahamat Idriss Déby's… Read more »
Chad Opposition Rejects Election Outcome Amid Fraud Allegations
The Constitutional Council of Chad has upheld the results of the December 29, 2024, parliamentary elections, declaring the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) party of transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby the winner, despite opposition allegations of fraud and low voter participation.
Opposition leaders, including Clement Sianka of the National Assembly of Democrats, allege widespread irregularities, including ballot stuffing and intimidation by government forces, and are calling for the elections to be annulled.
The country's Constitutional Council announced that MPS had won 124 seats in the 188-member National Assembly.
According to the opposition, the polls, the first in over a decade, should be annulled because most of Chad's 8.3 million voters boycotted the vote. They added that no indication was given that the elections would be free, fair, and transparent since civilians knew Deby wanted power confiscated.
The upcoming senatorial elections in April are expected to conclude the transition to civilian rule, but tensions remain high, with opposition leaders accusing election management bodies of bias and manipulation.
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Chad's electoral commission has requested military assistance to protect election officials and candidates ahead of the country's parliamentary, local council, and regional e Read more »
Le Président de la République du Tchad, Chef Suprême des Armées, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno
