Chad votes in very first parliamentary election in over a years: What to understand
Chadians are enacting parliamentary, local and community elections for the very first time in more than a years, continuing the previous military-turned-civilian federal government's push to put the Central African nation on a democratic course. Opposition celebration members are sceptical.
Authorities in N'djamena state Sunday's vote will officially end a three-year "transitional duration" that followed the 2021 death of long time leader Idriss Deby Itno and the powerful takeover by his kid, Mahamat Idriss Deby, who was validated as the nation's president after an election in May.
Lots of opposition celebrations are boycotting the surveys, calling them a "masquerade" and implicating the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) federal government of attempting to legitimise what they call a poli...