Chad’s transitional prime minister resigns to pave the way for a new government of national unity

Oct. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Chad’s transitional prime minister, Albert Pahimi Padacké, presented his resignation to the leader of the junta, Mahamat Idriss Déby, on Tuesday to pave the way for a new government of national unity in the country in the coming days.

Padacké, who has gone to the presidential palace to present his complaint to Déby, who has accepted it, has wished the future Executive luck to face the second phase of the transition, according to the Alwihdainfo news portal.

His resignation comes after Déby took office as interim president of the country and after the extension for a maximum period of two years of the transition opened in April 2021 after the death in combat of his father and until then president, Idriss Déby. .

Déby, who took office on Monday during a ceremony at the Palace of January 15 in the capital, N’Djamena, has highlighted “the courage and resilience of the Chadian people” and has promised “to fully dedicate the second phase of the transition to applying the conclusions of the National Inclusive Dialogue”.

Déby has been consolidated in office by the Chad National Dialogue Committee, an organization created to establish the new two-year political transition plan in the African country and which has been boycotted by much of the opposition, as well as two of the three main armed rebel groups and civil society organizations.

The Chadian leader took office in April last year, after his father was killed during a military operation against the rebels of the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT). The current ruler had promised to return power to civilians after 18 months, a term that expires this month and has been extended by two years by the National Dialogue Committee.

The death of Déby -who had held power since 1990, after leading a coup that overthrew the dictator Hissène Habré- was a serious blow to the stability of the country and the region, due to the importance of the territory in the struggle against international terrorism in the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin.