The members of the Constitutional Council took an oath before electing this figure of power at the head of the body recently recreated within the framework of the new Constitution. A ceremony organized in Amdjarass in the presence of Mahamat Idriss Déby, while the composition of the Council is criticized by opponents of the transition.
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Four days after their appointment, the members of the new Constitutional Council (5 non-magistrates out of 9 members in total) chose their office, and headed Jean-Bernard Padaré. The swearing-in and voting took place in Amdjarass, in the northeast of the country, where the transitional president is staying.
Justified by “ the emergency » of the taking up of office of the members of the Council, this relocation to the lands of the head of state is seen by his adversaries as new proof of “ lockdown » of the end of the transition, and of “ subjugation » of the Council, as well as the Election Management Agency.
The members of these two bodies were appointed either by Mahamat Idriss Déby or by the president of the transitional assembly.
Haroun Kabadi has just left the general secretariat of the MPS, the former ruling party, of which Jean-Bernard Padaré was number 2 and spokesperson…
Aged 56, this lawyer from the south-west of the country was a human rights defender, advisor to Idriss Déby then minister, before experiencing disgrace in 2013-2014, a conviction overturned on appeal, then once again becoming an energetic support of the former president’s regime, then the transition led by his son.