Chad’s PM Succes Masra submits resignation after junta chief presidential election

Chadian Prime Minister Succes Masra said Wednesday he had handed in his resignation, just over two weeks after his defeat to junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno in presidential elections.

Issued on: 22/05/2024 - 12:14Modified: 22/05/2024 - 12:15

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Chad's transitional Prime Minister and Les Transformateurs party presidential candidate Succes Masra (C) reacts after casting his ballot at the Bureau de vote numéro 1 polling station in Carre 30, Abena Area in N'Djamena, on May 6, 2024 during Chad's presidential election. © Joris Bolomey, AFP

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"I've just submitted my resignation and that of the transition government, which became irrelevant with the end of the presidential election," Masra said on his Facebook page in a message authenticated by his team to AFP.

The move, he added, was also in accordance with the constitution.

Deby, 40, was proclaimed transitional president in April 2021 by a junta of 15 generals after his father, iron-fisted president Idriss Deby Itno, had been shot dead by rebels after 30 years in power.

MES CHERS COMPATRIOTES,

DE MES MAINS, CONFORMÉMENT À LA CONSTITUTION, JE VIENS DE PRÉSENTER EN CE JOUR AU PRESIDENT DE TRANSITION, MA DÉMISSION ET CELLE DU GOUVERNEMENT DE TRANSITION, DEVENU SANS OBJET AVEC LA FIN DE L’ÉLECTION PRÉSIDENTIELLE DU 06 MAI 2024 AUX RÉSULTATS… pic.twitter.com/chi7iDlu5a
— Succès MASRA 🇹🇩 (@Succes_MASRA) May 22, 2024

He won the May 6 presidential vote with 61 percent of the ballot, according to final results.

Masra, also aged 40 and once a fierce Deby opponent before becoming prime minister four months ago, won 18.5 percent of the vote but contested the results.

He claimed victory in the ballot, which his party called a "masquerade" and which international rights groups had said would be neither credible nor fair.

(AFP)