Chad’s transitional president promises the formation of a unity government “in the next few days”

Oct. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of Chad’s junta, Mahamat Idriss Déby, has promised the formation “in the next few days” of a government of national unity after taking 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.

“The national unity government that will be established in the coming days will work so that the will of the Chadian people does not suffer any setback,” he said, before stressing that these authorities “will work to respond to the legitimate concerns of the population.”

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”.

Likewise, he has emphasized that among the main objectives of this new stage will be “the organization of a referendum”, “the organization of elections” and increase “internal security” to “put an end to inter-community conflicts”.

The new Chadian transitional president has outlined that “particular attention will be paid to justice” and will work “in terms of access to drinking water and energy, health services, quality education, decent jobs, food security and road infrastructure”.

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.