Chad’s transitional leader appoints members of election body

General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, the Transitional leader of Chad, named Tuesday January 30 members of the election body, l’Agence Nationale de Gestion des Elections, ahead of 2024 presidential elections.

A decree signed by the leader appointed 10 people to make up the body.

Chadians will head to the polls late this year 2024, following the adoption of a new Constitution in December 2023 at a referendum, held under an agreement brokered by Qatar between the opposition, Civil society and the junta led by the 37-year old General that seized power following Idriss Déby Itno’s death.

Deby himself will be candidate for the polls.
This month, Mouvement Patriotique du Salut [Patriotic Salvation Movement] (MPS), the ruling party, made him its candidate for elections.

The MPS held its 11th Congress in the build-up to the presidential polls that will help choose a replacement to Idriss Déby Itno, the father of the transitional leader, who died in April 2021 reportedly at a war front against rebels.

Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno is likely to face Succès Masra, the current Prime Minister and top figure of the opposition.

Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno named Masra early this month the country’s new Premier.