A joke circulating on social media in Ndjamena suggests that the current prime minister the co-opted oppositionist Succès Masra who is also standing in the presidential election will prove to have polled the most votes but Kaka will prove to have the most tanks...
A few days after that announcement Succès Masra the former opposition leader co-opted by Mahamat Kaka to lead his government as prime minister on 1 January declared his candidacy in the presidential poll...
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Fears that May's presidential elections will amount to little more than a coronation for military leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' appear to have been confirmed after his recently co-opted Prime Minister Succès Masra announced that he would also stand in the polls...
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The appointment of Succès Masra leader of Les Transformateurs as Prime Minister on 1 January was seen as a move to co-opt him into Kaka's camp...
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Much depends on how President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno's ('Kaka') strategy of co-opting the leader of the opposition Les Transformateurs Succès Masra as prime minister works out...
The announcement of the results was followed by an invitation to Succès Masra leader of Les Transformateurs to join the government as prime minister...
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Opposition leader Succès Masra and his party Les Transformateurs having boycotted the dialogue process on Demobilisation Disarmament and Reintegration had called for a boycott of the vote (AC Vol 64 No 11 Succès on K-Street)...
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Opposition leader Succès Masra and his party Les Transformateurs have taken on the K-Street lobby shop Scribe Strategies led by Republican operative Joseph Szlavik one of the most popular Africa-focused outfits in Washington (AC Vol 63 No 7 Al Qaida bomb compensation)...
