Opponents denounce presidential contest as "election circus" with Idriss Deby Itno expected to secure fourth term. Voters went to the polls in Chad, with Idriss Deby Itno, the country's sitting president, virtually assured of re-election after his three main opposition rivals announced a boycott. Saleh Kebzabo, Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue and Ngarlejy Yorongar have withdrawn from what they have described as an "election circus" and have urged citizens to boycott Monday's vote. Having demanded reforms that include the issuing of new voters' cards, they claim that unfair conditions caused Deby's Patriotic Movement of Salvation (known by its French acronym MPS) to crush them in a February parliamentary poll and are predicting the new poll will be a "historic fraud"...[continued]
