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Updated April 26, 2021
Albert Pahimi Padacké, the last Prime Minister of Idriss Déby Itno, speaks during an interview in N’Djamena on April 26, 2021. Issouf SANOGO / AFP
Chad’s new military junta on Monday named a transitional prime minister, appointing a distant runner-up in presidential polls a week after veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno died fighting rebels.
Albert Pahimi Padacke was the last premier under Deby, whose shock death triggered the creation of a so-called Transitional Military Council (TMC) headed by his son, 37-year-old Mahamat Idriss Deby.
Pahimi Padacke will lead a government whose members will be named or revoked by the younger Deby, according to a 95-article “Transition Charter” published last Wednesday that supersedes the constitution.