The Chadian transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Déby, announced on Saturday March 2 that he will be a candidate in the presidential election scheduled for May 6.
“I, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, am a candidate for the 2024 presidential election under the banner of the coalition of parties For a United Chad,” he declared in a speech, after 221 movements claimed by this coalition asked him to introduce himself.
Then a young general of 37 years old, he was proclaimed by the army transitional president at the head of a junta of 15 generals on April 20, 2021, upon the announcement of the death of his father, Marshal Idriss Déby Itno.
The patriarch then ruled this vast Sahelian country with an iron fist for more than thirty years.
Mahamat Idriss Déby immediately promised to return power to civilians through elections after an 18-month transition, but when this term expired, he extended it by two years.
The opposition denounced a “dynastic succession” of the Débys.
With AFP
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