Highlights: Presidential election in Chad: the Constitutional Council begins collecting candidates until March 15. The Coalition for a United Chad must submit Mahamat Idriss Déby's candidacy file this Wednesday. The head of the transition must still be “available” from the army to meet the eligibility conditions. In addition to being Chadian with Chadian parents, being 35 years old, no criminal record and a medical certificate, candidates must raise a deposit of 10 million FCFA, refundable if they obtain 10% of the votes.

In Chad, just two months before the presidential election, and a week after the death of opponent Yaya Dillo in disputed circumstances, the submission of candidacies opens this Tuesday, March 6...

Presidential election in Chad: the Constitutional Council begins collecting candidates until March 15

In Chad, just two months before the presidential election, and a week after the death of opponent Yaya Dillo in disputed circumstances, the submission of candidacies opens this Tuesday, March 6 at the Registry of the Constitutional Council, and until 'to March 15.

The list of candidates will be published on March 24.

A presidential election is announced for May 6, 2024 in Chad and the registry of the Constitutional Council collects from this Wednesday, March 6 and until March 15.

applications.

(illustration: April 2024 presidential election in Chad).

AFP - MARCO LONGARI

By: RFI Follow

with our special correspondent in Ndjamena,

François Mazet

The Coalition for a United

Chad must submit

Mahamat Idriss Déby

's candidacy file this Wednesday

The head of the transition must still be “available” from the army to meet the eligibility conditions.

His Prime Minister

Succès Masra

will rule in the coming days on the pressing calls from his activists.

The former head of government,

Albert Pahimi Padacké

, also wants to go through his party to decide between boycott and candidacy.

Among the other political leaders, the leader of the “no” vote in the referendum,

Brice Mbaïmon,

will speak out quickly, while the only publicly declared candidate is Abdelkrim Djibril, of the modest Revolutionary Movement for Democracy and Peace (MRDP).

Balthazar Alladoum Djarma

, present in 2021, and

Théophile Bongoro

should follow… The latter two should nevertheless request a postponement of the process, given the “deleterious” climate and the multiple strikes in progress which are hampering the preparation of files, according to Théophile Bongoro.

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In the radical opposition, members of the GCAP (Consultation Group of Political Actors) hesitate between boycotting and participating to, they say, “

honor the memory of

Yaya Dillo
by proving the massive fraud to the rest of the world

”.

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In addition to the administrative conditions, such as being Chadian with Chadian parents, being 35 years old, no criminal record and a medical certificate, candidates must raise a deposit of 10 million FCFA, refundable if they obtain 10% of the votes.

Presidential election in Chad: the Constitutional Council begins collecting candidates until March 15

Presidential election in Chad: the Constitutional Council begins collecting candidates until March 15

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