Succès Masra, ancien opposant, nommé chef du gouvernement au Tchad

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Succès Masra a été nommé Premier ministre du Tchad lundi par le président de transition tchadien Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Sukhse Masra was appointed prime minister of Chad on Monday by the president of the

00:04 Chadian transition, Mahama Idris Deby Hitno.

00:06 The head of the party Les Transformateurs, one of the main opposition political groups,

00:11 had exhorted his supporters to vote "yes" during the referendum on the new Chadian

00:15 constitution, which was promulgated on Friday.

00:18 The president of the Chadian transition, Mahama Idris Deby Hitno, appointed Monday,

00:22 January 1, as prime minister Sukhse Masra, one of his main opponents of the return of

00:27 exile in November after an agreement of reconciliation.

00:29 Dr. Sukhse Masra is appointed prime minister, head of the transition government, announced

00:35 on the state television channel the secretary general to the presidency of the Republic,

00:39 Mahama Hama Alabo.

00:41 The president of the party Les Transformateurs had been among the most virulent opponents

00:45 to military power in place in Chad for two and a half years, after the death of Idris

00:49 Deby Hitno in April 2021, who had been leading the country with an iron fist for 30 years.

00:54 Sukhse Masra had publicly called his camp to vote "yes" at the referendum for a

00:58 new constitution promulgated on Friday, a step that is supposed to open the way to elections.

01:03 But for a part of the opposition and civil society, the result of this scrutiny is

01:08 similar to a plebiscite intended to prepare the election of the president of the transition,

01:12 General Mahama Idris Deby.

01:14 Reconciliation agreement.

01:16 On October 20, 2022, demonstrators, who left the headquarters of Les Transformateurs, had

01:22 protested against the maintenance of the military in power, which had just extended

01:26 a 18-month transition for two years, to the extent of which they had initially promised

01:30 to give power to civilians by elections.

01:32 About fifty people had been killed that day, according to authorities, between a hundred

01:38 and three hundred according to the opposition and local and international NGOs.

01:41 Like several other opposition leaders, Sukhse Masra had been forced to exile a few

01:46 days later and could not return to the country on November 3, following a

01:50 reconciliation agreement signed in Kinshasa on October 31.

01:53 The government was committed to guaranteeing the free exercise of its political activities

01:58 to Sukhse Masra who told him he wanted to continue the dialogue in view of a peaceful

02:02 political solution.

02:03 Several parties in the opposition had distanced themselves from Sukhse Masra, also expressing

02:08 their disagreement over the general amnesty pronounced for all Chadians, civilians and

02:13 military involved in the events of Thursday night.

02:15 With AFP.

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