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Chad’s Supreme Court validated the results of the referendum for a new constitution. This is a key step intended to pave the way for elections in the country at the end of 2024
Chad’s Supreme Court validated the results of the referendum for a new constitution. This is a key step intended to pave the way for elections in the country at the end of 2024.
According to the final results, the “yes” side won with 85.90% of the vote, while the “no” side won 14.10%, with a turnout of 62.8%, the president of the Supreme Court told a press conference. For some members of the opposition and civil society, the result of this ballot resembles a plebiscite designed to pave the way for the election of the transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Bloc Fédéral, an opposition coalition. It had called for the results to be annulled on the grounds of several irregularities in the voting process and termed the process as a second coup. The new constitutional text is not very different from the one already in force and still gives great power to the Head of State.
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Mahamat Déby, 37, was proclaimed transitional president by the army on April 20, 2021, at the head of a junta of 15 generals, following the death of his father Idriss Déby Itno, who was killed by rebels on his way to the front. Idriss Déby Itno had ruled the country with an iron fist for over 30 years.
