Chadian constitutional referendum, 1996 Totally Explained

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The Chadian constitutional referendum of 1996, held on March 31, 1996, was designed to approve or reject, through a popular consultation, a constitutional draft meant to definitively replace the Transitional Charter established by the Sovereign National Conference in 1993. Chadian President Idriss Déby had promised since his rise to power in 1990 to transit Chad to a multiparty democracy. Despite these promises, Déby slowed the process in an attempt to maintain full control over the process. This worried France, Chad's former colonial power, as it noted that by 1995 only Chad had yet to hold multiparty elections. Putting pressure on Déby, he forced him to open on January 6, 1996 in Franceville, Gabon, a round table with the 15 armed groups and 58 opposition parties present in Chad.
The reconciliation conference resulted in a failure, as it soon foundered on procedural points and questions of representation, and, at a deeper level, due to the deep mistrust between Northern and Southern Chadians. All the same, the conference was proficous to Déby who used it to divide the opposition, according himself with those formations willing to put an end to armed confrontation with the government.
The Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation of the Francophonie, in its report on the Chadian presidential elections, mentioned the main criticisms moved towards the referendum's conduction. These centered on four points, concerning the inadequacy of the personnel encharged of the polling stations and the local electoral commissions, the absence of neutrality in the recruitment of said personnel, scarce respect of the electoral code during the count of votes and the unhomogeneous distribution of the referendum material. These results were revised by the N'Djamena Court of Appeals, which replaces for the time being the Constitutional Council and the Supreme Court as the highest juridiction in Chad, as the latter have yet to be instituted. The court rejected a number of ballots for tecnicalities, raising the "yes" victory to 63.5%, which result it officially validated and made public on April 13. The Court also immediately proceeded to proclaim the Constitutional draft the new supreme law of the State, and the following day, on April 14, President Idriss Déby provided to promulgate it.

Official results:
Votes cast	1,990,669	61.04%
Abstentions	1,270,113	38.96%
Electorate	3,260,782
Of votes cast:
Votes expressing a view	1,902,144	95.55%
Blank or invalid votes	88,525	4.45%
Total votes	1,990,669
Of Yes and No votes:
Yes	1,201,782	63.5%
No	700,362	36.5%
Total	1,902,144

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