Constitution of Chad 1996 (rev. 2005) | Land Portal

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December 1996
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constituteproject:648
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English Translation © 2012 by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

The President promulgated the constitution after being approved by 63.18% of voters in a referendum.

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Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of civil warfare, as well as invasions by Libya, before peace was restored in 1990. The government eventually drafted a democratic constitution and held flawed presidential elections in 1996 and 2001. In 1998, a rebellion broke out in northern Chad, which has sporadically flared up despite several peace agreements between the government and insurgents. In June 2005, President Idriss DEBY held a referendum successfully removing constitutional term limits and won another controversial election in 2006.

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