November 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Chad has confirmed that it could initiate a process to request the definitive dissolution of seven opposition political parties temporarily suspended due to protests at the end of last month against the country’s transition process.
The suspension, in force for three months, targeted such prominent formations as Los Transformadores, as well as the Popular Front for the Federation, the Socialist Party without Borders, Los Patriotas, Al Tajadoum, the Chadian Justice and Equality Group and the Democratic Renewal Party.
The decree also targeted the Wakit Tamma civil-political movement, which brings together other opposition political parties and associations.
The Minister of Territorial Administration, Limane Mahamat, whose portfolio is responsible for managing these suspensions, warned late Friday that the Government does not rule out initiating “a dissolution procedure at the end of the suspension period”, according to statements collected by the portal ‘Al Wihda’
Mahamat indicated that the authorities will now investigate “the regret” that these suspended organizations could display, although these investigations “would not hinder the dissolution procedure.”
“The application of the law has been neglected for too long,” added the minister.
The protests, which left at least fifty dead and more than 300 injured, targeted the current Chadian leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby, whose mandate, established by the Army in 2021 after the death of his father, Idriss Déby Itno.
Mahamat Déby’s mandate was consolidated for another two years in early October after “national dialogues” were boycotted by most members of the opposition, as well as two of the three main armed rebel groups and numerous civil society organizations.
The two-year extension sparked these protests, which the Chadian government described as an “act of insubordination” encouraged by, among others, opposition leader Succès Masra and the aforementioned opposition political forces.
