the Prime Minister appointed by the junta, Succès Masra, announces his candidacy for the presidential election

The Prime Minister of the military junta in Chad, Succès Masra, announced on Sunday March 10, during a meeting his candidacy for the presidential election on May 6, eight days after that of the Transitional President, General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.

Success Masra, a former opponent, signed a reconciliation agreement with Mahamat Déby before being named Prime Minister on January 1. The opposition denounces a “application pretext” intended to give a semblance of plurality to a vote that she considers won in advance by Mahamat Déby.

“I am present as a candidate for the presidential election (…) to mend hearts and unite the people”said this 40-year-old doctor of economic sciences, in front of hundreds of activists from his Les Transformateurs party who called on him to run.

In response to the accusations of those who accuse him of having joined the junta, he replied: “it was an agreement of national reconciliation, an agreement of the brave”, “so that our quest for justice is never transformed into a quest for revenge.”