The Constitutional Court of Chad endorses the victory of Mahamat Idriss Déby in the presidential elections on May 6

May 16. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Constitutional Court of Chad rejected this Thursday the opposition’s appeal to annul the result of the May 6 elections in which transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby won with 61 percent of the votes, thus putting an end to a process caused by the death in April 2021 of his father, former president Idriss Déby.

The Constitutional Court has declared Déby the winner, who managed to defeat the Chadian Prime Minister in those elections, Succès Masra, who had to settle for about 19 percent of the votes, responsible for this appeal based on a series of alleged irregularities.

According to the court’s ruling, the complaints are considered unfounded and therefore Déby will be the next president of the country for the next five years, reports the news portal Alwihda Info.

Added to the lawsuit presented by Masra is that of who was, according to these results, the third candidate in those elections, Albert Pahimi Padacké, who obtained nearly 17 percent of the votes and challenged the percentages in three regions in which Déby won with a wide margin, reports the US agency Bloomberg.

Déby took power with the backing of the military after the death of his father in 2021, the victim of an attack carried out by the rebel group Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT) during a visit to the front line.