Referendum held earlier this month has been accepted by 86 p.c of voters, say the officers.
Chadians have voted in favour of a brand new structure that critics say may assist consolidate the ability of navy chief Mahamat Idriss Deby.
The referendum held earlier this month was accepted by 86 p.c of voters, the federal government fee that organised it mentioned on Sunday.
Voter turnout was about 64 p.c, it mentioned.
Chad’s navy authorities have referred to as the vote an important stepping-stone to elections subsequent 12 months – a long-promised return to democratic rule after they seized energy in 2021 when former President Idriss Deby was killed on the battlefield throughout a battle with rebels.
The brand new structure will keep a unitary state, which Chad has had since independence, whereas establishing autonomous communities with native assemblies and councils of conventional chiefdoms amongst different modifications.
However a few of its opponents had referred to as for the creation of a federal state, saying it might assist spur improvement within the oil-producing, but impoverished nation.
A number of opposition teams referred to as for a boycott of the vote, saying the navy had an excessive amount of management over the referendum course of, and calling it “a farce” for the navy management to carry on to energy.
Supporters argued the brand new structure does supply extra independence because it permits Chadians to decide on their native representatives and accumulate native taxes for the primary time.
“These folks speaking a few federation merely wish to divide Chadians into micro-states and gasoline hatred between communities,” mentioned Haroun Kabadi, coordinator of teams voting “Sure”.
The military had suspended the structure after Deby’s dying and dissolved the parliament.
Deby’s son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, was then installed by the military as interim president on the helm of a Transitional Navy Council.
A long time of instability since Chad’s independence in 1960 have hampered improvement within the central African nation, the place practically 40 p.c of its 16 million persons are depending on humanitarian assist.