Mahamat Idriss Déby’s Patriotic Salvation Movement currently takes two thirds of the camera
Jan. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The party of Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby leads by a wide margin in the first results of the December 29 legislative elections, which give his Patriotic Salvation Movement (MSP) two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly, the Chadian Parliament.
The MSP would have for the moment taken 124 of the 188 seats in the chamber according to the first estimates published this Sunday by the country’s electoral commission, the National Agency for the Management of Elections (ANGE) on its Facebook page.
If this result is confirmed, the Chadian leader’s party would experience a considerable increase in support compared to the 2011 legislative elections, when it won 83 seats alone (134 with the cooperation of its partners, the Rally for Democracy and Progress, and the National Group for Development and Progress).
The results point to a new National Assembly where there will be 36 parties represented. The second political force, according to estimates, a very large distance behind the MSP, will be the National Rally of Chadian Democrats (RNDT-Le Réveil) led by former Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacké. The Rally for Democracy and Progress would remain in third place, with eight seats.
Déby assumed power in 2021 following the death of his father, Idriss Déby, during clashes with the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT) militias.
He became head of a military junta after the dissolution of the institutions following the death of his father, although in May he won the presidential elections in the country, despite criticism from opponents such as former prime minister Succès Masra, who accused Déby’s military-turned-civilian government of manipulating the parliamentary vote – the first in more than a decade – to entrench its power.
The results take place at the end of a week marked by the very serious incident that occurred last Wednesday in the capital, N’Djamena: an armed attack perpetrated against the Presidential Palace that resulted in the death of two soldiers and 18 assailants, according to the balance provided by the authorities of the African country.
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