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2024-05-06 Africa North
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Chad goes to polls to vote for a new president
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[AFRICANEWS] Candidates in Chad delivered their final campaigning messages on Saturday ahead of the country’s first presidential vote since the death of long time ruler Idriss Deby.
Success Masra, currently prime minister of the interim government, is one the main challengers.
Speaking to supporters in the capital, N'Djamena, the former African Development Bank executive promised young people a better future and the creation of more jobs.
A "minimum package of dignity" in his programme includes an ambitious five-year plan to create 200,000 jobs, divided equally between the private and public sectors.
Masra’s grassroots campaign has also promised to deal with other urgent issues like access to electricity, water, and security for all.
“We would like to live in a country at peace and reconciled, so the victory on the horizon is not that of one side against another, but that of all the people of Chad. The victory of the hope of peace, the victory of an enthusiastic future over a difficult past,” he said.
Chad's interim president the favourite as the country goes to the polls
[Africanews] As Chad goes to the polls on Monday, it is widely believed that incumbent President General Mahamat Idriss Deby will win easily.
He seized power three years ago after his father, Idriss Déby Itno, was killed, apparently on the battlefield fighting rebels trying to overthrow his government.
Deby senior had ruled Chad with an iron fist for three decades.
A career soldier, the new president promised to hold elections within 18 months, but his government postponed the poll and allowed him to run for president.
It has said the election will return the country to constitutional rule, but opposition groups say they have no doubt the poll will be rigged.
Deby is backed by the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) party.
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