After the opposition’s accusations, it is the turn of a consortium of Chadian observers to denounce irregularities during the Chadian legislative, municipal and local elections on Saturday and Sunday, December 29. The Chadian League for Human Rights, the Citizens’ Alliance for Elections in Chad and the Observatory of Associations on Electoral Processes had deployed 2,000 observers throughout the country. On the contrary, the ANGE considers that the elections took place satisfactorily.
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With our correspondent in Ndjamena, Victor Mauriat
Voters who vote in several offices, sometimes without electoral cards, the transport of a group of voters from office to office by bus, ballot box stuffing or even ballot boxes filled in advance.
The accusations of the consortium observers mainly target one party, the Patriotic Salvation Movement, in power since 1990. Gombo Breye Houzibé is the head of mission of OAPET: “ This is obviously a systemic practice. The MPS has always been known for mafia-like practices and so this does not surprise us, it is in their DNA. Unfortunately, they are confirming that this is standard practice. »
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For the National Election Management Agency (ANGE), on the contrary, the election took place in a very satisfactory manner. No major incident has been reported since the end of the vote, estimates its president Ahmat Batchiret. “ Personally, I think it’s a success. There is pressure from political parties, it exists, you cannot say that there was no pressure at all. These are small incidents which are not even reported to the ANGE, here in Ndjamena, because these are small incidents which are contained on site. », Says the president of ANGE.
The ANGE specifies that political parties will be able to file appeals before the Supreme Court and Constitutional Council once the provisional results are published. It will be January 15 at the latest, she says.
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