This Tuesday, March 12 in Chad, the Les Transformateurs party submitted the candidacy of the former opponent – now Prime Minister – Succès Masra to the Constitutional Council.
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The candidacy of Succès Masra raises eyebrows among his former comrades in struggle who accuse him of having compromised with those in power by accepting amnesty for those responsible for the massacres of October 20, 2022 and then the prime ministership. Others still accuse him of having plunged the Chad in a serious social crisis by increasing fuel prices or not having sufficiently condemned the death of the opponent Yaya Dillokilled in an army assault on his party headquarters on February 28.
An agreement with those in power?
Asked by Carol Valadethe opponent Max Kemkoyepresident of the Union of Democrats for Development and Progress (UDP), is convinced that Succès Masra’s candidacy for the presidential election is the result of an agreement with those in power: “ It’s absolutely a means of political survival and he’s going to invest in the upcoming legislative elections, to have more deputies, so it’s a means of political survival, it’s a way of maintaining himself, he wants to keep the position of Prime Minister. »
“ An electoral farce »
“ Andsays Max Kemkoye again, if he tried to make it possible to be renewed once again until the next legislative elections which would practically take place in 2025, it is support, it is an application for testimony, if it is ever validated , it is to accompany Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno. Inclusivity, or inclusion, is not with Succès Masra, inclusion is with the opposition, but today Succès Masra is no longer an opponent, for us it is a false candidacy, it’s a testimonial candidacy, it’s funny but it’s simply an electoral farce. »
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