Six candidates face incumbent President Idriss Déby Itno, who is seeking a sixth term in the April 11 presidential election. If the candidates meet their constituents during meetings, it is also on the streets of Ndjamena that the race for the Pink Palace is played out through campaign posters. They are distributed in large numbers on the streets of the Chadian capital. But the opposition condemns the lack of justice.
as reported from Ndjamena, Aurélie Bazzara
Ndjamenois saw election posters flourishing in numbers in the capital. In any case, by the candidate Idriss Déby Itno, because no opponent is visible. Brice Guedmbaye Mbaimon, President of the Mouvement des patriotes tchadiens pour la République (MPTR)
“The advertising spaces are almost all occupied by the party in power. At the head of the city council’s town hall are only the militants [Mouvement patriotique du salut ndlr] MPS that handles this. Suddenly they put it at the service of the party in power. What is prescribed in the texts, I am talking about Article 119, is that it forbids putting up posters in these places. ”
MPS refutes accusations against the opposition
An illegality that Jean-Bernard Padaré, the spokesman for MPS, disproves a bloc: “No one prevented the opposition from posting posters in the officially designated places. We have not broken any laws. In addition, they know it very well otherwise they would have taken the authority responsible for regulating the management of spaces. So again, this is an unfounded accusation. “
The Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) has called on the candidates to organize and reaffirms that the mayors must allocate a fair amount of space for each campaign party. However, according to a source within the Commission, no sanction is being taken to resolve this “disorder”.
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