2024-03-24 14:10:54
The Chadian Constitutional Council on Sunday invalidated the candidacy of the main opponents of power, notably due to administrative irregularities. A decision which comes less than a month after the death of General Déby’s main political rival, his own cousin Yaya Dillo Djérou, killed on February 28 by soldiers in the assault on his party headquarters.
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Ten candidacies, including those of two fierce opponents of the junta in power in Chad, Nassour Ibrahim Neguy Koursami and Rakhis Ahmat Saleh, were rejected by the Constitutional Council, the latter announced on Sunday March 24 during a formal hearing.
Their file was deemed “non-compliant” and “inadmissible”, due in particular to irregularities in the required administrative documents, justified the Constitutional Council, in charge of validating candidacies for the presidential election, the first round of which must take place on May 6.
Ten candidates are still in the race, including the transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, and his Prime Minister, Succès Masra, a former opponent whose participation is denounced by the opposition as a “pretext candidacy” intended to give a semblance of plurality in a vote that she considers won in advance by Mahamat Déby.
“True forfeiture”
He “only validated the list of candidates who will accompany the head of the junta during the presidential election”, added the opponent, against whom the Constitutional Council announced “the opening of a preliminary investigation with a view to criminal prosecution” for “forgery and use of forgery”, due to suspicions regarding supporting documents provided in his application file.
“All the arguments used do not hold water,” declared Rakhis Ahmat Saleh, who was the candidate for the Party for Democratic Renewal in Chad (PRDT), denouncing a “real betrayal” and “maneuvers” by the Constitutional Council to exclude candidates “without valid reason”.
One month after the death of Yaya Dillo Djérou
Another of the major opposition platforms in Chad, Wakit Tamma, called on Saturday to boycott the presidential election, criticizing a “masquerade” intended to perpetuate a “dynastic dictatorship”.
In a press release, the platform had notably denounced the organization of the election by the transitional authorities under the leadership of General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, proclaimed by a military junta president of the transition in April 2021, after the death of his father Idriss Déby Itno who ruled the country with an iron fist for 30 years.
Wakit Tamma had notably described the National Election Management Agency (Ange) and the Constitutional Council as “bodies of fraud”, “entirely unequal and subservient to the junta”.
The rejection of the candidacy of the main opponents of the junta comes less than a month after the death of General Déby’s main political rival, his own cousin Yaya Dillo Djérou, killed on February 28 by soldiers in the assault on his headquarters. Socialist Party Without Borders (PSF).
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He was killed by a bullet in the head at close range, according to the PSF, an “assassination” intended to exclude him from the presidential race according to the opposition, which the government denies.
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