Electoral physique says President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s occasion secured 124 of 188 Nationwide Meeting seats in vote boycotted by opposition.
Chad’s governing occasion has taken the vast majority of seats in final month’s parliamentary election that was largely boycotted by opposition events, in keeping with provisional outcomes.
President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s occasion, the Patriotic Salvation Motion, has secured 124 of the 188 seats on the Nationwide Meeting, Ahmed Bartchiret, head of the electoral fee, introduced late on Saturday.
The participation fee was put at 51.56 p.c, which opposition events mentioned confirmed voter doubts concerning the validity of the competition.
The December 29 election was offered by Deby’s occasion because the final stage of the nation’s transition to democracy after he took energy as a army ruler in 2021.
The takeover adopted the death of Deby’s father and longtime President Idriss Deby Itno, who spent three a long time in energy. Mahamat Deby ultimately received final yr’s disputed presidential vote.
The vote, which additionally included municipal and regional elections, was Chad’s first in additional than a decade.
Deby had mentioned the election would “pave the best way for the period of decentralisation so long-awaited and desired by the Chadian folks”, referring to the distribution of energy past the nationwide authorities to the varied provincial and municipal ranges.
‘Charade’
The election was boycotted by greater than 10 opposition events, together with the principle Transformers occasion, whose candidate, Succes Masra, got here second within the presidential election.
The primary opposition had referred to as the election a “charade” and expressed worries that it will be a repeat of the presidential vote, which election observers mentioned was not credible.
Final month’s vote got here at a essential interval for Chad, which is battling a number of safety challenges – from assaults within the Lake Chad area by the Boko Haram armed group to ending decades-long military cooperation with France, its former colonial energy.
The severing of army ties echoes latest strikes by Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, which all kicked out French troops and fostered nearer ties with Russia after a string of coups in West and Central Africa’s Sahel area.
This week, safety forces foiled an attack on the presidency that the federal government known as a “destabilisation try”.
