2023-12-28 17:30:56
The new Constitution of Chad was adopted by 85.90% of the votes with a referendum participation rate of 62.8%, according to final results published Thursday by the Chadian Supreme Court. The latter rejected the appeal of the Federal Bloc, an opposition coalition which had requested the annulment of the results due to several irregularities in the conduct of the vote.
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The Supreme Court of Chad definitively validated, Thursday, December 28, the results of the referendum for a new Constitution organized by the military junta in power for two and a half years, a key step supposed to pave the way for elections at the end of 2024 in the country. .
According to the final results, “yes” won with 85.90% of the votes while “no” obtained 14.10% of the votes with a participation rate of 62.8%. , indicated the President of the Supreme Court during a press conference.
For part of the opposition and civil society, the result of this election is akin to a plebiscite intended to prepare the election of the transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Déby.
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The Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the Federal Bloc, an opposition coalition which had requested the annulment of the results due to several irregularities in the conduct of the vote.
The opposition, which had widely called for a boycott, denounced, in the words of Max Kemkoye, president of the Consultation Group of Political Actors (GCAP), “a second coup d’état by Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno”, in the face of results which , according to him, are not credible.
No revolution
The new constitutional text does not differ much from that already in force and still devotes great power to the head of state.
At 37, Mahamat Déby was proclaimed by the army on April 20, 2021 transitional president at the head of a junta of 15 generals, following the death of his father Idriss Déby Itno killed by rebels on his way to the front. He had ruled the country with an iron fist for more than 30 years.
The young general immediately promised elections following an 18-month transition and made a commitment to the African Union not to run. Eighteen months later, his regime extended the transition by two years and authorized him to be a candidate in the presidential election scheduled for the end of 2024.
On the anniversary of the 18-month transition, October 20, 2022, between 100 and more than 300 young men and adolescents were shot and killed in N’Djamena by police and soldiers, according to the opposition and national and international NGOs. . They were demonstrating once morest the two-year extension of the transition.
More than a thousand people were imprisoned before being pardoned, but dozens of them were tortured or disappeared, according to NGOs and the opposition.
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