Chad: Haroun Kabadi elected at the head of the National Transitional Council
The president of the National Transitional Council, Haroun Kabadi, on October 5, 2021 in Ndjamena.
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In Chad, the National Transitional Council was installed on Tuesday, October 5.
Unsurprisingly, Haroun Kabadi, president of the National Assembly dissolved a few days ago, was appointed president.
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With our correspondent in Ndjamena,
Madjiasra Nako
It was by acclamation that
Haroun Kabadi
was appointed president
of the National Transitional Council
,
the provisional parliament appointed by the junta in power since Idriss Déby's death in April.
Two candidates, both veterans of Chadian politics, were in the ranks: Haroun Kabadi and Delwa Kassiré Coumakoye.
But after a suspension and consultations, the chairman announced that the candidate Kassiré was withdrawing in favor of the outgoing president of the National Assembly.
The room then applauded, designating by consensus the new president of the provisional parliament.
A post of interim president refused
Haroun Kabadi is therefore installed on the perch and announced how his institution intends to support the transition: "
Our objective is not to systematically oppose the government, but rather to create a climate of appeasement in order to emerge from this transition that we can organize transparent elections and lay the institutional foundations for a post-transition Chad.
"
The 73-year-old is starting a new term as head of the legislature after spending ten years as President of the National Assembly. This position should have enabled him to become interim president of Chad on April 20 following the death of Idriss Déby Itno, after having been minister and then prime minister in the 2000s. But the agronomist trained in the United States refused to 'assume this role, explaining that for health reasons, he cannot be president of a country as complex as Chad. Officially, it is for this reason that the transitional military council has decided to hand over the reins of the country to Mahamat Idriss Déby, the son of the late president.
At the end of the session, a parliamentarian member of the former majority opposed to Haroun Kabadi, told us in the corridors of the hemicycle that "
it could not happen otherwise since he refused to act as interim for let the Déby son take the presidency illegally.
We are in the continuity of the Déby system without Idriss
”.
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