{"id":15296,"date":"2024-03-02T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2024-03-02T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:50:59","slug":"deby-confirms-plan-to-run-for-president-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/deby-confirms-plan-to-run-for-president-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Deby Confirms Plan to Run for President in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chad\u2019s military leader has said that he will run in the country\u2019s long-awaited presidential elections in May, just three days after his chief rival was killed in suspicious circumstances.<br \/>\n\u201cI, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, am a candidate for the 2024 presidential election under the banner of the For a United Chad coalition,\u201d Deby said in a speech on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe vote will mark the end of three years of military rule in the politically charged Central African country.<br \/>\nDeby took power after his father and longtime ruler, Idriss Deby Itno, died fighting rebels in the country\u2019s north in April 2021.<br \/>\nThe younger Deby promised a return to civilian rule, as well as elections, but the leader extended the transition by two years, despite loud objections from opposition parties.<br \/>\nLast week, the country\u2019s elections agency finally announced that the vote would be held on May 6, following a December referendum promising to amend the constitution.<br \/>\n\u201cMahamat Idriss Deby said it was not his intention to run for president. He said his focus when he took over from his father when he was killed on the front lines was to stabilise Chad, to ensure that the institutions of governance continue as well as to provide peace and stability to the country and the region,\u201d this isnoted from Chad\u2019s capital N\u2019Djamena on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u201cNow, he has been endorsed by a coalition of more than 220 political parties and associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Chad\u2019s military leader has said that he will run in the country\u2019s long-awaited presidential elections in May, just three days after his chief rival was killed in suspicious circumstances. \u201cI, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, am a candidate for the 2024 presidential election under the banner of the For a United Chad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15298,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions\/15298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}