Among the ten candidates for the Chadian presidential election on Monday May 6, transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby and his Prime Minister Succès Masra organized their last meetings in Ndjamena this Saturday May 4.
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With our special correspondent in Ndjamena, Esdras Ndikumana
In the battle for the capital, which has the largest reservoir of votes, Mahamat Idriss Déby and Succès Masra challenged each other in two giant meetings which were to start at the same time this Saturday afternoon, two kilometers apart from each other. The first at the Place de la Nation, the second at the Ndjamena racecourse.
All day long, their sympathizers had met and met again in the streets of the capital, in a good-natured atmosphere, before the start of their meetings. Entertainment groups, deafening music to the glory of the candidates, numerous speeches to warm up the crowd: it was party time at the two meetings, before each side launched into a final speech to galvanize their troops . This is less than 48 hours before the vote.
“ Our victory on the evening of May 6 is a certainty, but we must be mobilized and vigilant », Launched Mahamat Idriss Déby to his supporters. Remote response from Succès Masra: “ The people’s victory of May 6 will completely change the history of the Chadian people. »
But tensions still remain in the countryside. The Prime Minister’s party, the Transformers, accuses the Election Management Agency (Ange) for having invalidated, “ in rather obscure conditions », a good part of its thousands of agents responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the vote in the polling stations on Monday. This according to RFI information. False, reacted the Angel, affirming that they would have submitted their files on May 2: the law stipulated April 30 as the deadline.
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