Highlights: In Chad, the National Transitional Council (CNT) adopted on February 22, 2024 the new electoral code. It will govern the next legislative, senatorial and local elections but especially the presidential election. The current transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby, has already been designated by the MPS as its candidate. The code authorizes him to run by lowering the minimum age to 35 years but he will first have to be “on call’ RFI: What are the main provisions of the electoral code adopted by parliament?

Chad: what are the main provisions of the electoral code adopted by parliament?

In Chad, the National Transitional Council (CNT) adopted, on February 22, 2024, the new electoral code which will govern the next legislative, senatorial and local elections but especially the presidential which will put an end to the political transition begun in 2021. What are the main provisions of this code and what could be their consequences on the electoral calendar?

Main entrance to the Chadian National Assembly.

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Ndjamena,

Carol Valade

Chad

, the National Transitional Council (CNT) adopted on February 22, 2024 the new electoral code which will govern the next legislative, senatorial and local elections but especially the presidential election which will put an end to the transition which began almost 3 years ago years after the death of Idriss Deby Itno.

His son, the current transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby, has already been

designated by the MPS

, the party founded by his father, as its candidate, even if the main person concerned has not yet officially accepted.

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The new electoral code authorizes him to run by lowering the minimum age to 35 years but he will first have to be “on

call

”: this is a legal obligation for the military and civil servants.

The electoral code also ratifies the exclusive competence of the National Election Management Agency (Ange) to organize the polls –

despite the controversy

over its composition, considered very favorable to power – but the text also contains information on the legal deadlines for the organization of the presidential election.

First of all, voters must be summoned by decree at least two months before the start of the vote.

Two months is also the deadline for publishing the electoral lists and opening the submission of candidacies.

Then, the campaign extends over 21 days and ends two days before the election.

On this day, the offices will be open from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m.

But the vote for nomads and Chadians abroad begins the day before and extends over two days.

Then, the Angel has 15 days to proclaim the provisional results, after receipt of the minutes.

Then, the candidates will have five days to refer the matter to the Constitutional Court which, for its part, has 10 days to rule or proclaim the election of the President, in the event that a candidate obtains an absolute majority.

Otherwise, there will be a second round, a maximum of 15 days after the announcement of the final results.

The first round of the presidential election in May 2024?

With this step taken, things should speed up in view of the presidential election.

First, because it is the desire of the authorities to put an end to the transition as quickly as possible, to compensate for the lack of legitimacy of a regime that came to power outside of any constitutional framework, and to do so within the stipulated deadline: namely, before next October.

A very short deadline, especially since there are weather constraints: in the rainy season - from June to September, roughly - certain areas are completely inaccessible.

There are also religious constraints since the month of Ramadan, which should begin around March 10, is not really conducive to holding an electoral campaign.

And, since the campaign lasts three weeks, everything seems to indicate that the presidential election will take place in May, with a possible second round in June, which several well-placed sources confirm.

Subject, of course, to the technical constraints which will be exposed by the Angel.

The latter should also publish its schedule very quickly: probably as early as next week, according to RFI sources.

Chad: what are the main provisions of the electoral code adopted by parliament?

Chad: what are the main provisions of the electoral code adopted by parliament?

The first round of the presidential election in May 2024?

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