the presidential coalition is cracking as the legislative elections approach

the presidential coalition is cracking as the legislative elections approach

The rag is burning within the United Chad presidential coalition which brings together some 230 political parties. After the decision of the MPS announced Tuesday October 22 to go alone to the legislative elections and the local elections of December 29, several of its members cry treason and do not take off against the party of former president Idriss Déby Itno who has become the main support of his son Mahamat who succeeded him in power.

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At Chadseveral parties which had joined the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) within the United Chad coalition for the presidential election of May 6 do not hide their dissatisfaction following the decision of the former president’s party Idriss Déby Itno to go it alone for the legislative elections and the local elections on December 29.

Malloun Yoboïdé Djilaki, the president of the Democratic and Socialist Party for Alternation (PDSA), is very angry with the MPS. “ This announcement marks the death of the United Chad coalition while yesterday we stood side by side, we will now go and confront each other on the ground! this one gets angry. This is ingratitude on the part of the secretary general of the MPS. He fooled us. But we who know him well are not surprised », he continues.

Also on the side of the Sacred Union for the Republic (USPR), resentment is strong. Its leader, François Djekombé, remembers in particular with a certain bitterness the way in which the MPS had courted the approximately 230 parties of the Chad united for coalition. elect Mahamat Idriss Deby as president last May. “ To say that everyone is going to go their separate ways and that we will come together for the harvest is not normal: we could have used the same reasoning for the presidential election! », he says, also accusing the MPS of throwing away its allies now that it no longer needs them.

“Everyone must count their strengths »

For the party of former President Idriss Déby Itno, on the other hand, Chad United was first and foremost a coalition with a view to the presidential election and each of whose members is, in one way or another, today associated with business management. However, what we are talking about now are legislative elections, explains its number one, Mahamat Zene Bada. “ It’s about something else entirely. Today, we are looking for an assembly to legislate and everyone must count their strengths », declares the latter before adding that “ we create a party to win elections, not to support another party in order to have deputies “. Mahamat Zene Bada, however, assures his former partners that there will indeed be a coalition between the parties of United Chad which will be represented in the future assembly.

Before making the decision to go alone in the elections of December 29, the MPS initially attempted to negotiate with around ten allied parties with a view to forming a restricted coalition. But the negotiations were unsuccessful, the party – a real steamroller in power for more than 34 years – ended up judging that it had too much to lose. “ Each of the 235 parties in the coalition wanted to have one, two or three deputies while there are only 188 seats in the National Assembly », further justifies Mahamat Zene Bada.

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