Chad residents voted overwhelmingly to allow President Idriss Deby to seek another term in office, according to results from a June 6 referendum revealed Tuesday. About 78 percent of voters in this central African country said yes to a constitutional change to permit Deby to run for a fourth consecutive term, said election official Djimtebaye Lapia. Deby had served for 15 years and was barred from seeking another five-year term. Chad's presidential election is set to be held next year. Deby, 53, seized power in a 1990 coup, but introduced multiparty politics in Chad in 1991 and went on to win elections in 1996 and 2001.
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