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Chad’s Interim Leader Deby Wins Election With 61.3%, Preliminary Results Show
Chad’s Interim Leader Deby Wins Election With 61.3%, Preliminary Results Show
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On Monday, Chad held presidential elections, where more than 8.2 million registered voters had a chance to choose the next head of state. These elections will... 10.05.2024, Sputnik Africa
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Chad's interim president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, won the May 6 presidential election with 61.3% of the vote, according to preliminary results, the Electoral Commission said on Thursday.Thus, Deby provisionally scored well above the 50% required to avoid a second round.Succes Masra, the main opposition candidate and the country's prime minister, got 18.53% of the votes.A total of ten candidates were running for the office in the first round, including Deby and Masra, as well as Albert Pahimi Padacke, the nation's former prime minister, and Lydie Beassemda, the only female candidate.After former Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno died in 2021 from wounds received fighting rebels in the north of the country, a transitional military council led by General Mahamat Idriss Déby, the son of the late leader, was created to govern the country.In 2022, the military council was dissolved, and Mahamat Idriss Deby was appointed interim president, while the transition period was extended until 2024.*Meta and its products Instagram and Facebook are banned in Russia over extremist activities.
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Chad’s Interim Leader Deby Wins Election With 61.3%, Preliminary Results Show
15:11 10.05.2024 (Updated: 15:17 10.05.2024) Christina Glazkova
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On Monday, Chad held presidential elections, where more than 8.2 million registered voters had a chance to choose the next head of state. These elections will end a three-year transition period which began after the death on the battlefield of the then President of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno.
Chad's interim president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, won the May 6 presidential election with 61.3% of the vote, according to preliminary results, the Electoral Commission
said on Thursday.
Thus, Deby provisionally scored well above the 50% required to avoid a second round.
Succes Masra, the main opposition candidate and the country's prime minister, got 18.53% of the votes.
In a Facebook* live broadcast shortly before the announcement, Masra declared victory and urged his followers and security personnel to thwart what he described as an effort to distort the results.
A total of ten candidates were running for the office in the first round, including Deby and Masra, as well as Albert Pahimi Padacke, the nation's former prime minister, and Lydie Beassemda, the only
female candidate.
After former Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno died in 2021 from wounds received fighting rebels in the north of the country, a transitional military council led by General Mahamat Idriss Déby, the son of the late leader, was created to govern the
country.In 2022, the military council was dissolved, and Mahamat Idriss Deby was appointed interim president, while the transition period was extended until 2024.
*Meta and its products Instagram and Facebook are banned in Russia over extremist activities.
