Chad’s Deby sworn in as president as Allamaye Halina named new PM
Al Jazeera
Inauguration of Mahamat Idriss Deby follows disputed election and marks an end to three years of military rule.
Chad’s newly elected president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, has been sworn in to succeed his late father after three years as an interim leader under military rule in the northcentral African country.
Shortly after, the country announced that Allamaye Halina would assume the post of prime minister after Succes Masra announced his resignation from the position this week.
Speaking at an inauguration ceremony in the capital in N’Djamena on Thursday, which followed contested elections earlier this month, Deby said: “To my brothers and sisters who did not choose me … I would like to say that I respect your choice, which contributes to the vitality of our democracy.”
Deby won a sweeping 61 percent of the May 6 vote that international NGOs said was neither credible nor free.
He was proclaimed transitional president in April 2021 after rebels killed his father, Idriss Deby, who had himself ruled Chad since a coup in the early 1990s.
