In Chad, what strategy now for Succès Masra and the Transformers? Still formally Prime Minister, the candidate believes he won the May 6 presidential election. Nevertheless, Thursday May 16, after the rejection of his appeals by the Constitutional Council, he noted the exhaustion of the legal route, calling for calm and patience. In his speech, Succès Masra spoke of a “ political solution » and seemed to be already planning on the next electoral deadlines.
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With our special correspondent in Ndjamena, François Mazet
One of the main cadres of the Transformers confesses that his movement has “ paid to learn: everything was masquerade and fabrication “, according to him.
However, ” boxes were checked, we faced the voters for the first time », he adds. For the Transformers, no doubt, they took away the “ moral victory », failing which official figures. They plowed the land, met rural populations, less favorable regions, traditional leaders. Or a way of going beyond their image as an urban party on social networks.
Their goal is change from within, by “ three years or thirty years », writes musician Ray’s Kim on social networks.
Fearing a new October 20 », Success Masra encouraged its activists to remain peaceful. He is already looking towards the legislative elections which should take place at the end of the year, perhaps coupled with local ones: we must serve the people “ at all levels “, he said.
Because if the “ co-pilot “Self-proclaimed leader of the transition should leave the management cockpit of the Prime Minister, it is not impossible that some of those close to him will stay to influence the future: ” we don’t all have to get off the plane », Estimates one of them.
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The boycotting parties are calling “ to mobilization for actions of political and civic defiance »
Now, the parties that also boycotted the entire electoral process are reacting to the official results. The opposition political parties under the name of the Consultation Group of Political Actors (GCAP), which had boycotted the entire electoral process, declare that they do not “ recognize these elections », nor its results, nor the election of Mahamat Idriss Deby as president-elect of the Republic of Chad.
In front of the media on Friday 17 morning in Ndjamena, members of GCAP were “ launched a call for mobilization for actions of political and civic defiance, which will be launched throughout the national territory », announced one of the GCAP spokespersons, Max Kemkoye, also president of the UDP party.
Affirming not to “recognize the elections” and its results, one of the spokespersons of the GCAP, Max Kemkoye “launches a call for mobilization for actions of political and civic defiance, which will be launched throughout the national territory”