The extraordinary congress of the Patriotic Salvation Movement, the party of the late President Idriss Déby Itno, convened and appointed the President of the National Assembly, Haroun Kabadi, as the new Secretary General. A consensual and even shortened congress.
Many observers predicted major changes, which could cause discontent within the party, but things went smoothly, and the congress was even shortened by one day.
The participants of this tenth extraordinary congress wanted to reassure those who feared the dismissal of the old ones. The participants of this tenth extraordinary congress wanted to reassure those who feared the dismissal of the elders, a dismissal that could cause a rupture in the ranks of the Patriotic Salvation Movement. This is why the presidium of the meeting was entrusted to Moussa Kadam, vice-president of the National Assembly and an old hand in politics.
It is another old hand who was proposed to the delegates as secretary general of the party. Haroun Kabadi, president of the National Assembly, who has held the position in the past, is returning to a house he knows well, even if times have changed considerably.
Booed for weeks on social networks for refusing to assume the presidency of the transition after the death of President Déby, Haroun Kabadi certainly represents the continuity that reassures the members of the MPS, but in the eyes of a part of the opinion, he is only the symbol of the perpetuation of the Déby system.