Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Chad: three opponents calling for a boycott of the presidential

The three main opponents to Chadian President Idriss Deby, Saleh Kebzabo, Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue and Ngarlejy Yorongar announced on Tuesday, March 22, they were suspending their participation in the presidential election and called for a boycott of the election on April 24. The five candidates running against President Deby, MM.

Kebzabo, Kamougué Yorongar and Minister Albert Pahimi Padacké and opposing counsel Nadji Madou, president of the Socialist Alliance for a full revival (ASRI), had attached conditions to their participation in the first round. Building on the progress of legislation they called for new voter cards, printing of ballots scanned and secured, securing voting equipment and its delivery, the redevelopment of the electoral commission and compliance by authorities of the provisions relating to influence peddling and the use of the symbol of state property.

Mr. Kebzabo represented the National Union for Democracy and Renewal (UNDR), the main opposition party with nine seats, according to the results of legislative elections on Tuesday validated by the Constitutional Council and highly criticized by the opposition. Mr. Abdelkader Wadal Kamougue, several times minister, was the candidate of the Union for Renewal and Democracy (URD), which won seven seats in the parliamentary elections while the party of Mr.

Yorongar, the Federation Action for the Republic (FAR), has won four, far below the one hundred and thirteen seats, about one hundred eighty-eight in the Assembly, obtained by the Patriotic Movement of hello (MPS) of President Deby . "MM. Kebzabo Saleh, Abdelkader Kamougue and Ngarlejy Yorongar, decided, responsibly, to suspend their participation in the presidential election on April 24, 2011.

In so doing, they ask solemnly to their countrymen not to go to the polls endorse this great electoral farce, if this decision should be upheld, "said Mr. Kebzabo N'Djamena in the presence of MM. Kamougué and Yorongar.

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