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Deby’s party, the Patriotic Salvation Movement, secured 124 of the 188 seats at the National Assembly, with a participation rate of 51.56%. The vote, including municipal and regional elections, was Chad’s first in over a decade, while the Government had denied this allegation.
Provisional results showed that Chad’s ruling party has won two-thirds of the seats in the legislative election. Most of the opposition parties boycotted the election held last month.
Results of the Dec. 29 election seal the country’s transition to constitutional rule more than three years after Deby seized control following the sudden death of his father and long-standing predecessor Idriss Deby Itno.
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Deby’s party, the Patriotic Salvation Movement, secured 124 of the 188 seats at the National Assembly, with a participation rate of 51.56%. The vote, including municipal and regional elections, was Chad’s first in over a decade, while the Government had denied this allegation.
