The Prime Minister of Chad, Succès Masra, announced Sunday 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 Idriss Déby Itno before being named Prime Minister on January 1.
The opposition denounces a
“pretext candidacy”
intended to give a semblance of plurality to a vote that it considers won in advance by Mahamat Déby.
“I am present as a candidate for the presidential election (...) to repair hearts and unite the people”
, launched this 40-year-old doctor of economic sciences, in front of hundreds of activists from his Les Transformateurs party who called to introduce themselves.
In response to the accusations of those who accuse him of having rallied 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"
.