Presidential election in Chad 2011
The 2011 presidential election in Chad was held on April 25, 2011 after the originally scheduled date of April 3 was postponed. The three main opposition parties boycotted the election, which officially ended with a victory for the incumbent President Idriss Déby .
Original candidates
- Idriss Déby ( Patriotic Welfare Movement ), Acting President
- Saleh Kebzabo ( National Union for Democracy and Renewal ), candidacy withdrawn
- Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué ( Union for Renewal and Democracy ), candidacy withdrawn
- Ngarlejy Yorongar ( Bund, Aktion für die Republik ), candidacy withdrawn
- Albert Pahimi Padacké ( National Collection for Democracy in Chad )
- Nadji Madou ( Socialist Alliance for Renewal of Integrity )
Controversy
On March 25, 2011, Saleh Kebzabo , president of the National Union for Democracy and Renewal , announced that a coalition of political parties had decided to suspend their participation in the electoral commission. Fifteen members of the electoral commission who belonged to opposition parties withdrew from the commission because they found the election process unreliable.
According to the Chadian Electoral Code, at least two thirds of the 31 members of the commission are necessary for it to be able to work. With the departure of the 15 members, the necessary quorum was not achieved.
boycott
The most important opposition politicians Saleh Kebzabo, Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue , and Ngarlejy Yorongar announced that they were boycotting the "electoral circus" and urged voters to do the same. Before that, they had called for electoral reforms such as the issue of new election identification cards. They also criticized the unfair conditions that led to the defeat of the opposition in the parliamentary elections in Chad in 2011 and predicted a "historic hoax" in the presidential election.
Election process
There have been reports that polling stations in N'Djamena opened very late due to the late arrival of election materials and poll workers.
| candidate | Nominating party | be right | proportion of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idriss Déby | Patriotic Welfare Movement (MPS) | 2,503,813 | 88.66% |
| Albert Pahimi Padacké | National Collection for Democracy in Chad (RNDT – Le Réveil) | 170.182 | 6.03% |
| Nadji Madou | Socialist Alliance for Integrity Renewal (ASRI) | 150.220 | 5.32% |
| Valid votes | 2,824,215 | 100.00% | |
| Invalid votes | 355.111 | 11.17% | |
| Total (voter turnout 64.22%; boycotted by the three main opposition parties) | 3,179,326 | ||
| Source: CENI | |||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hosted news for Chad 2011 ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Opposition in Chad leaves the election body
- ↑ a b Al-Jazeera English on Chad
- ↑ Africa - Africa News on Chad