Federation, Action for the Republic

Federation, Action for the Republic
Fédération, action pour la république
AbbreviationFAR/Parti Fédération
LeaderNgarlejy Yorongar
Founded~1997
IdeologyFederalism
National Assembly
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Federation, Action for the Republic (French: Fédération, action pour la république, FAR/Parti Fédération) is a political party in Chad. It is considered a radical opposition party and is led by Ngarlejy Yorongar. The FAR supports federalism.[1]

In the 1997 parliamentary election, the FAR won one seat in the National Assembly.[1][2][3] Yorongar was the only FAR candidate to win a seat.[3]

Its candidate for the 20 May 2001 presidential election, Yorongar, was a prominent critic of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. According to official results, he won 396,864 votes, or 6.35%.[4] Six opposition candidates were detained on May 30 after contesting the results. Yorongar, along with fellow opposition leader Abderhamane Djesnebaye, was tortured, including by being beaten with iron bars.[5]

In the 2002 parliamentary election, the party won 10 out of 155 seats.[6][7]

The party boycotted the 2006 presidential election.[8]

The FAR was the only major opposition party to not sign a 2007 agreement that provided for improved electoral organization ahead of the next parliamentary election. Yorongar criticized the agreement as inadequate and said that there should instead be a dialogue involving the entire political scene, including rebels, the exiled opposition, and civil society, and that a credible election could not be conducted while a rebellion was taking place in part of the country.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 118.
  2. ^ IPU-PARLINE page on 2002 parliamentary election.
  3. ^ a b "RAPPORT DE LA MISSION D’OBSERVATION DU DEUXIEME TOURDES ELECTIONS LEGISLATIVES DU 23 FEVRIER 1997" Archived 2007-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, democratie.francophonie.org (in French).
  4. ^ Elections in Chad, African Elections Database.
  5. ^ "Chad: Violent crackdown on peaceful protesters" Archived 2006-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Amnesty International, June 12, 2001.
  6. ^ IPU-PARLINE page on 2002 parliamentary election.
  7. ^ List of members of the Federation Parliamentary Group Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, May 2002.
  8. ^ "UNHCR Web Archive". webarchive.archive.unhcr.org. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  9. ^ "Tchad: l'opposant Yorongar refuse de perdre du temps à signer un accord vain" Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), August 14, 2007 (in French).


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