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.
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