This law empowers the National Commission in charge of organizing the constitutional referendum (CONOREC) and the Permanent Elections Bureau (BPE) to organize the referendum.
In a decree signed on May 30, 2023, the President of the Transition, Mahamat Idriss Deby, promulgated Law 11 on the specific electoral law relating to the organization of the constitutional referendum. It was adopted on Monday May 22, 2023 by the National Transition Council (CNT). The text was approved by 156 members of the CNT; four voted against and three abstained.
Proposed by the Commission in charge of organizing the constitutional referendum (Conorec), the law gives this body responsibility for organizing and supervising the ballot.
Conorec thus has carte blanche to conduct the referendum process, a task initially assigned to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CECI), including voter registration.
Organized into two titles and 109 articles, the text sets out the conditions for organizing and running the constitutional referendum. Procedures, the casting of votes and the duration of the electoral campaign are the main thrusts of this law.
The timetable for the process presented by Limane Mahamat, Minister of Territorial Administration and Chairman of CONOREC, provides for voter registration from June 1 to 5, 2023. The revision of the electoral roll will take place from June 20 to July 9. Voter card distribution will take place from November 8 to 17.
The electoral campaign will run from October 26 to November 15. The referendum itself is scheduled for November 19. The proclamation of provisional results by CONOREC and final results by the Supreme Court
are scheduled for November 29 and December 15, 2023 respectively.
The organization of a constitutional referendum is one of the key recommendations of the inclusive and sovereign national dialogue held from August to October 2022. The aim of this popular consultation is
to settle the question of the form of state, which did not meet with unanimous approval during the dialogue. During this electoral consultation, the Chadian population of voting age will have to decide whether to opt for a decentralized unitary state, or for a federal state.
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