Federation, Action for the Republic

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]

Federation, Action for the Republic Fédération, action pour la république
Abbreviation	FAR/Parti Fédération
Leader	Ngarlejy Yorongar
Founded	~1997
Ideology	Federalism
National Assembly	2 / 188
Politics of Chad Political parties Elections

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]

References

1. Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 118.
2. IPU-PARLINE page on 2002 parliamentary election.
3. "RAPPORT DE LA MISSION D’OBSERVATION DU DEUXIEME TOURDES ELECTIONS LEGISLATIVES DU 23 FEVRIER 1997" Archived 2007-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, democratie.francophonie.org (in French).
4. Elections in Chad, African Elections Database.
5. "Chad: Violent crackdown on peaceful protesters" Archived 2006-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Amnesty International, June 12, 2001.
6. IPU-PARLINE page on 2002 parliamentary election.
7. List of members of the Federation Parliamentary Group Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, May 2002.
8. "UNHCR Web Archive". webarchive.archive.unhcr.org. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
9. "Tchad: l'opposant Yorongar refuse de perdre du temps à signer un accord vain" Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), August 14, 2007 (in French).