Chad’s
long-ruling 68 year-old President Idriss Deby Itno has been re-elected to a
sixth term with 79.32 percent of the votes cast in 11 April’s election,
according to provisional results from the electoral commission on Monday.
Former
prime minister Albert Pahimi Padacke came a distant second with just 10.32
percent in the presidential vote, while turnout was 64.81 percent, Independent
National Electoral Commission chairman Kodi Mahamat Bam said.
The
first female presidential candidate in Chad’s history, Lydie Beassemda, came
third with 3.16 percent.
The
provisional results still need to be approved by the Supreme Court after it studies
potential legal appeals.
After
more than three decades in power, the victory of 68-year-old Deby was never in
serious doubt after a campaign in which he faced a divided opposition lacking a
major rival candidate and demonstrations were banned or dispersed.
Officially
nine candidates were running against Deby, but three withdrew and called for
the vote to be boycotted – though the Supreme Court kept their names on the
ballots.
Deby
campaigned on a promise of peace and security in a region that has been rocked
by jihadist insurgencies.
Chad’s
army said Monday it had killed more than 300 rebels following a heavily armed
group’s incursion in the country’s north after election day.
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