Voting is below method in Chad’s first parliamentary election in 13 years, which the federal government has introduced as a key step in direction of ending navy rule.
Voters will select a brand new parliament, provincial assemblies and native councils in one of many world’s poorest nations.
The opposition has determined to boycott the votes within the North African nation of 18 million. Turnout was low within the capital N’Djamena when polling stations opened on Sunday.
Election officers within the upmarket district the place the president’s household and ruling dignitaries stay put voter apathy all the way down to the “chilly climate”.
Opposition events have urged Chad’s eight million voters to shun elections whose outcomes they stated had been determined prematurely.
Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi studies from Chad’s capital, N’Djamena.
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