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Federation, Action for the Republic (French: Fédération, action pour la république, FAR/Parti Fédération) is a political party in Chad. It is considered a radical opposition party and is led by Ngarlejy Yorongar. The FAR supports federalism.[1]
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Federation, Action for the Republic Fédération, action pour la république | |
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| Abbreviation | FAR/Parti Fédération |
| Leader | Ngarlejy Yorongar |
| Founded | ~1997 |
| Ideology | Federalism |
| National Assembly | 2 / 188
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In the 1997 parliamentary election, the FAR won one seat in the National Assembly.[1][2][3] Yorongar was the only FAR candidate to win a seat.[3]
Its candidate for the 20 May 2001 presidential election, Yorongar, was a prominent critic of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. According to official results, he won 396,864 votes, or 6.35%.[4] Six opposition candidates were detained on May 30 after contesting the results. Yorongar, along with fellow opposition leader Abderhamane Djesnebaye, was tortured, including by being beaten with iron bars.[5]
In the 2002 parliamentary election, the party won 10 out of 155 seats.[6][7]
The party boycotted the 2006 presidential election.[8]
The FAR was the only major opposition party to not sign a 2007 agreement that provided for improved electoral organization ahead of the next parliamentary election. Yorongar criticized the agreement as inadequate and said that there should instead be a dialogue involving the entire political scene, including rebels, the exiled opposition, and civil society, and that a credible election could not be conducted while a rebellion was taking place in part of the country.[9]
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