Déby in a sentence

After 3 months of provisional government, Déby’s Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) approved a national charter on February 28, 1991, with Déby as president.

Following the dialogue, the CMT was dissolved and Déby became head of a new transitional government, with a former opposition leader as prime minister.

Mahamat Déby is likely to act like his father, who attached great importance to presidential elections but steered clear of parliamentary polls.

The military initially said the transition would end with elections in October 2022, but as the date approached, instead it launched a ‘Sovereign Inclusive National Dialogue’, which extended Déby’s rule by over two years.

In 2006 and again in 2008, Epervier provided logistical and intelligence support to help Chad's current president, Idriss Déby, stave off rebel assaults on N'Djamena, the country's capital.

It is the Sovereign Council leader, for instance, who Chad’s President Idriss Déby recently to discuss border security and trade issues.

In July 2016, then-Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold met Déby, who has ruled Chad since 1990, at his presidential palace in the city of Fada, in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

Although oil output to the West has resumed and the dispute has officially been resolved, resentment towards what the Déby administration considered foreign meddling lingers.

Déby, in the mid-1990s, gradually restored basic functions of government and entered into agreements with the World Bank and IMF to carry out substantial economic reforms.

Déby relies on the French to help repel the rebels, and France gives the Chadian army logistical and intelligence support for fear of a complete collapse of regional stability.

Déby unilaterally modified the constitution to remove the two-term limit on the presidency; this caused an uproar among the civil society and opposition parties.

During the next two years, Déby faced at least two coup attempts.

Multiparty elections Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

Political parties main Until the legalisation of opposition parties in 1992, Déby's MPS was the sole legal party in Chad.

President Déby assisted him actively in taking the power in March 2003 (his rebel forces included 100 Chadian soldiers).

The constitutional basis for the government is the 1996 constitution, under which the president was limited to two terms of office until Déby had that provision repealed in 2005.