Saleh Kebzabo, historical opponent of former President Idriss Déby Itno, was appointed Prime Minister of Chad on Wednesday October 12 by decree of Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, proclaimed head of state on the death of his father in 2021. and recently renewed for a two-year transition.
Mr. Kebzabo, 75, former journalist, four-time presidential candidate against the late Idriss Déby Itno and whose party joined the government appointed by the military junta led by General Mahamat Déby eighteen months ago, “is appointed Prime Minister”we read in a decree signed by the head of state.
On April 20, 2021, when the death of Marshal Déby was announced, killed by rebels on his way to the front, the army proclaimed his son, Mahamat Déby, then 37 years old, President of the Republic at the head of a junta of fifteen generals for a transitional period of eighteen months leading to elections “free and democratic”.
But on Monday, he was again invested head of state for an extended transition of two years, on the proposal of a “national dialogue” supposed to bring together all the components of Chadian society as well as the rebellion, but boycotted by a very vast majority of the political and armed opposition. Mahamat Déby had promised on Monday to appoint “in the next few days” and “government of national unity”.