Chad's prime minister announces resignation two weeks after presidential election
Less than two weeks after losing the presidential race to junta head Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, the prime minister of Chad, Succes Masra, announced his resignation.
“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 on Wednesday.
He clarified that the action also complied with the constitution. After his father, iron-fisted president Idriss Deby Itno, was shot dead by rebels after 30 years in power, Deby, 40, was named interim president in April 2021 by a junta of 15 generals.
The official results show that he received 61 percent of the vote in the May 6 presidential contest.
Masra, who is also forty years old and was a fierce rival of Deby before taking office as prime minister four months ago, received 18.5 percent of the vote but refused to accept the outcome. He declared victory in the vote, which his party referred to as a "masquerade" and which, according to human rights organisations, would not be fair nor credible.
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