The transformers and Wakit Tama had organized demonstrations in October 2022, repressed in the blood by power.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The government of Chad raised Friday, January 20, the suspension of the political activities of several opposition parties on Friday, January 20, decreed three months ago, in particular for “disturbances to public order” during demonstrations, repressed in the blood by Power, learned the France-Presse (AFP) agency from government source on Saturday.
On October 20, 2022, around fifty people, according to the authorities, but much more according to the opposition, had been shot in bullets, and more than 300 others, injured, in N’Djamena and in a few other cities, when when The police had violently repressed the rallies organized by the transformers and Wakit Tama, the two main opposition structures, which intended to protest against the extension for two years from the functions of General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno as president of the country.
prolonged transition period
The same day, the authorities announced the suspension of “any public activity of political parties and organizations of civil society”, including those of the transformers and Wakit Tama, for three months, by means of two orders.
Their activities had been interrupted in particular for “disorders to public order and safety likely to seriously affect the security of the State and the proper functioning of republican institutions”, specifies the Minister of Administration of the territory, Limane Mahamat, in a press release.
The two leaders of these movements, success Masra, president of the transformers, and Max Loalngar, coordinator and spokesperson of Wakit Tama, had announced on November 10 to have to hide, the first abroad and the second somewhere in Chad, for fear for their safety.
The transformers and Wakit Tama had boycotted the “National Dialogue of Reconciliation” (DNIS), which extended the transition to “free and democratic” elections at the beginning of two years and endorsed the possibility for Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno to introduce himself, eighteen months after he took power at the head of a military junta, and despite the commitments made to the international community.