Chadian presidential election, 2001

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Presidential elections were held in Chad on 20 May 2001. Incumbent President Idriss Déby of the Patriotic Salvation Movement was re-elected with 63% of the vote.

Candidates

Déby stood as a candidate for a second term, and was supported by former opponent, Lol Mahamat Choua, leader of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP).

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Idriss Déby	Patriotic Salvation Movement	1,533,509	63.17
Ngarlejy Yorongar	Federation, Action for the Republic	396,864	16.35
Saleh Kebzabo	National Union for Democracy and Renewal	169,917	7.00
Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué	Union for Renewal and Democracy	146,125	6.02
Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh	Party for Liberty and Development	70,248	2.89
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye	National Rally for Development and Progress	57,382	2.36
Jean Alingué Bawoyeu	Union for Democracy and the Republic	53,513	2.20
Invalid/blank votes		69,657	–
Total		2,497,215	100
Registered voters/turnout		4,069,099	61.37
Source: African Elections Database

Aftermath

The election results, showing a first-round majority for Déby, were contested by all of the opposition candidates. On 28 May the six opposition candidates were briefly arrested after meeting at the home of one of them, Saleh Kebzabo, and four opposition activists were killed in the action. They were released half-an-hour later.

Two days later, the six candidates and as many as 40 activists were once again arrested as the opposition prepared to lead a funeral procession for one of those killed two days earlier. They were all released after a direct phone call to Déby from the World Bank's President James Wolfensohn.

Déby was sworn in for another term on 8 August.^[1]

References

↑ "LE PRÉSIDENT DÉBY VEUT FAIRE PLUS ENCORE" Archived February 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Diplomat Investissement, March–April 2006, p9

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