Chadian ruler Mahamat Deby Itno casts ballot in polls set to end military rule

Chad’s transitional President voted in N’djamena Monday (May. 6), in a long-delayed presidential election set to end three years of military rule.

Ten candidates are running in the poll including prime minister Succès Masra. Some 8 million Chadians are registered to vote.

“This is the commitment I made before God and the Chadian people, that of organizing, in the agreed upon timeline, elections which will mark a return to constitutional rule,” Deby Itno told reporters.

Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, seized power after his father, a former president and military officer,…