Coming to power by arms, thanks to a coup d'état supported by Paris in 1990, Idriss Déby Itno died as a soldier, killed on the front lines by Chadian rebels drawn up against his authoritarian power. The man who reigned with an iron fist over Chad for thirty years, self-promoted Marshal last August, had just been voted for a sixth term by muzzling all competition. He fell under the assaults not of Sahelian jihadists against whom he fought valiantly alongside France but of a Chadian political guerrilla who took refuge in Libya. The first instinct of the army, more powerful than the State in N'Djamena, was to suspend the Constitution and dissolve Parliament in order to establish a "Transitional Military Council" headed by the dynastic heir and commander of the guard. presidential,Mahamat "Kaka" Déby. A putsch that does not speak its name, barely disguised by the promise to organize new elections in eighteen months.
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