This weekend, the President of the Military Transitional Council (CMT), Mahamat Idriss Déby, set up a committee responsible for appointing future members of the National Transitional Council (CNT). Part of the opposition and civil society accuse the CMT of wanting to confiscate power.
CNT will serve as parliament for the remaining 16 months of the transition established by the military following the death of President Idriss Déby. Its 93 members will be especially responsible for drafting the new constitution. But for the opposition party Les Transformateurs and several civil society movements, a transition in the current circumstances is not feasible.
“It is to put the Chadians before the finished fact,” upset Succès Masra, president of Transformers. According to him, it would have taken a “sovereign and inclusive national conference” before the body for the transition was set up.
“A control body”
“Once we have had a dialogue,” he explains, “we will agree on the rules, the duration of the transition, the method, the specifications and we will put together a body whose role is precisely to be a body for control of the whole action, which makes it possible to achieve this. So it is for this civil-military transition, and not military-civilian, that is being organized, that we are appealing. ”
He also warns: we must be in agreement and not make the same mistakes as before, if we want this transition to succeed.
A position shared by part of civil society, which believes that CMT is going too fast. They would also have liked a sovereign and inclusive national conference to be organized upstream, explains Alain Kemba, national coordinator of the Citizen le Temps movement.
Alain Kemba national coordinator of the Citizen le Temps movement
We believe today that it is urgent to hold a sovereign and inclusive national conference, which is also asserted by all actors. But the Military Transitional Council continues to set up bodies to lead the transition. This committee, which consists mainly of personalities from the previous majority, will need to set up a council that will be biased in advance. A council that will be acquired by the CMT so that they can continue to confiscate power. And we fear that this will happen. That is why we believe that it is at the end of a dialogue that the National Transitional Council should be set up.
Communications Minister Abderaman Koullamallah disputes these allegations. For him, the entire political class in Chad – majority and opposition – is represented in this committee. “This committee already represents the most important current political forces,” he insists. Those who, in any case, have previously been legitimized by universal suffrage and those who have real political importance in the country. “
According to him, there is an urgent need to set up these institutions provided by Transitional charter.
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