{"id":8089,"date":"2023-12-16T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2023-12-16T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T16:50:39","slug":"chad-vote-on-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/chad-vote-on-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad: Vote on New Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chadians vote on Sunday on a new constitution, in a key step towards elections promised, but postponed, by the ruling junta and seen as a test of legitimacy for the Deby dynasty&#8217;s more than 30-year rule.<br \/>\nTransitional President General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, whose junta has governed since 2021, had promised to hand power to civilians and hold elections this year before postponing them to 2024.<br \/>\nSupporters of a federal state urge people in the central African nation and the world&#8217;s second least developed country, according to the United Nations, to vote &#8220;no&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe two main opposition groups have urged a boycott of the vote &#8212; some &#8220;Halt the Referendum&#8221; posters with a big red cross through them have appeared.<br \/>\nBut opponents are pinning their hopes on a low turnout, which they say would undermine the transitional president and scion of a family dynasty that has held absolute power in Chad for 33 years.<br \/>\nA unitary state is the sole means of upholding unity, the &#8220;yes&#8221; camp argues, dismissing federalism as aiding separatism and chaos.<br \/>\nAt the age of 37 and then a three-star general, Mahamat Idriss Deby was proclaimed president by a 15-strong junta of generals in April 2021 after the death of his father Idriss Deby Itno.<br \/>\nAs well as promising civilian rule with elections after an 18-month transition period, Deby junior pledged he would not stand for election.<br \/>\nBut 18 months later, Mahamat Deby extended the transitional period by two years and allowed himself to run for president, swapping his army uniform for a traditional boubou or smart suit.<br \/>\n&#8220;The result of the referendum is already known. The &#8216;yes&#8217; will pass,&#8221; Badono Daigou, of the GCAP opposition group told a meeting in N&#8217;Djamena on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Chadians vote on Sunday on a new constitution, in a key step towards elections promised, but postponed, by the ruling junta and seen as a test of legitimacy for the Deby dynasty&#8217;s more than 30-year rule. Transitional President General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, whose junta has governed since 2021, had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}