Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' had his eyes on the parliamentary elections on 29 December which saw a desultory turnout of around 38% after the leader of the opposition Les Transformateurs party Succès Masra had called for a boycott...
Over a dozen parties and the Transformateurs of Succès Masra will contest...
As predicted here Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' got 61% of the votes – the usual margin of victory his late father Idriss Déby Itno awarded himself – with rival candidates Succès Masra the prime minister and Albert Pahimi Padacké being assigned 19% and 17% respectively on a claimed turnout of 76% (AC Vol 65 No 6 Kaka paves a hard road to sham poll)...
The election did have one surprise however in the behaviour of Prime Minister Succès Masra the former opposition firebrand co-opted into the ruling circle...
Succès Masra by turning on Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka' during the election campaign had forfeited his position and the new premier is Alla-Maye Halina a Mousseye/Banana from Mayo-Kebbi region who had been head of protocol at the presidency for 13 years before being appointed ambassador to China last year...
Most of the previous cabinet stayed on but those close to Succès Masra unsurprisingly were sacked...
A joke circulating on social media in Ndjamena suggests that the current prime minister the co-opted oppositionist Succès Masra who is also standing in the presidential election will prove to have polled the most votes but Kaka will prove to have the most tanks...
A few days after that announcement Succès Masra the former opposition leader co-opted by Mahamat Kaka to lead his government as prime minister on 1 January declared his candidacy in the presidential poll...
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Fears that May's presidential elections will amount to little more than a coronation for military leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' appear to have been confirmed after his recently co-opted Prime Minister Succès Masra announced that he would also stand in the polls...
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The appointment of Succès Masra leader of Les Transformateurs as Prime Minister on 1 January was seen as a move to co-opt him into Kaka's camp...
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Much depends on how President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno's ('Kaka') strategy of co-opting the leader of the opposition Les Transformateurs Succès Masra as prime minister works out...
The announcement of the results was followed by an invitation to Succès Masra leader of Les Transformateurs to join the government as prime minister...
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Opposition leader Succès Masra and his party Les Transformateurs having boycotted the dialogue process on Demobilisation Disarmament and Reintegration had called for a boycott of the vote (AC Vol 64 No 11 Succès on K-Street)...
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