After three years under a transitional regime, Chad is preparing to return to the path of democracy. The presidential election, scheduled for Monday 6 May, will pit ten candidates against each other, including the outgoing transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Déby, and his prime minister, Succès Masra.
Given the high stakes of this election in this Sahelian country, which has been wracked by deadly violence over the past three years, several foreign organisations and partners have mobilised teams to observe the presidential election.
The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) sent an electoral mission last Thursday at the invitation of the Chadian authorities. The mission is headed by Mohamed Auajjar, former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the Kingdom of Morocco, according to a press release obtained by APA on Thursday.
Mohamed Auajjar will be in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital, from 30 April to 8 May. During this period, he will meet the main actors and institutions involved in the preparation and conduct of the electoral process, as well as representatives of civil society and international partners present on the ground.
These activities are “in the spirit of the commitments made in the Bamako Declaration of 3 November 2000”, an ambitious framework of reference on democratic principles and human rights that the members of the Francophonie have undertaken to promote and protect.
Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno came to power in April 2021 following the death of his father, Idriss Déby, during an army counter-offensive in the north against the rebels of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT).
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