BREAKING: Chad PM resigns, says he can’t work with newly-elected junta chief

The Prime Minister of Chad, Succes Masra on Wednesday disclosed that he had tendered his resignation letter to the newly elected former military leader after two weeks.

The former military chief, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno defeated the Prime Minister in the presidential elections.

The development he said, was in accordance with the Constitution of Chad.

Deby, 40, was proclaimed transitional president in April 2021 by a junta of 15 generals after his father, iron-fisted president Idriss Deby Itno, had been shot dead by rebels after 30 years in power.

The final results of the May 6 presidential vote showed that Mahatma scored 61 percent of the ballot.
Masra, also aged 40 and once a fierce Deby opponent before becoming prime minister four months ago, won 18.5 percent of the vote but contested the results.

He claimed victory in the ballot, which his party called a “masquerade” and which international rights groups had said would be neither credible nor fair.

“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.