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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 NDJAMENA 000826 
 
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LONDON AND PARIS FOR AFRICA WATCHER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/11/2016 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
SUBJECT: CHAD: POLITICAL OPPOSTION PROPOSES UNITY GOVERNMENT 
 
REF: NDJAMENA 778 
 
Classified By: POL/ECON OFFICER MICHAEL P. ZORICK, REASONS 1.4 (B) AND 
(D). 
 
SUMMARY: 
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¶1. (C) Chad's political opposition's ideas for a 
non-exclusive political dialogue would emasculate President 
Deby inside a multi-headed executive structure as part of a 
"Government of Broad Union", created to implement a "National 
Pact for Peace, Unity and Democracy" aimed at a 
root-and-branch reform of the Chadian socio-political fabric 
-- ideas unlikely to gain much traction with the President. 
The sweeping scope of the proposals, including a gutting of 
the state structure as currently under Deby's control, seems 
entirely unrealistic as a starting point for dialogue.  END 
SUMMARY 
 
NATIONAL PACT FOR PEACE, 
UNITY AND DEMOCRACY 
-------------------------- 
 
¶2. (C) Pol/Econ Officer met June 8 with Salibou Garba, head 
of the "AND" Party and member of the opposition umbrella 
group Coordination of the Political Parties for the Defense 
of the Constitution (CPDC).  Garba sought to follow up on the 
CPDC leadership's May 30 meeting with AF DAS Yamamoto 
(reftel), and provided a draft set of ideas for a "road map" 
toward peaceful political transition in Chad titled "Note for 
the Attention of Mr. Donald Yamamoto -- Political Crisis in 
Chad -- Framework for a Resolution".  Garba stressed that he 
was sharing the draft with us to get our input before making 
the ideas public -- or even showing them to some CPDC 
members, whom he did not trust to keep the proposals 
confidential until they were ready for prime time. 
 
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¶3. (C) The CPDC draft proposals open with a summary of the 
current political crisis, which characterizes state 
institutions, the ruling party and its allied organizations 
as having no purpose other than serving the personal 
interests of President Idriss Deby Itno.  The CPDC proposal 
calls for the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the 
broader international community to address this "crisis of 
legitimacy" through the facilitation of a "non-exclusive 
dialogue".  The objective of the dialogue is to be the 
conclusion of a "National Pact for Peace, Unity, and 
Democracy" that is to create a "Road Map" for socio-political 
reform, to be implemented by a "Government of Broad Union". 
 
¶4. (C) The CPDC road map calls for an "absorption" of armed 
political groups into the National Pact, with an open door to 
those who are not immediately ready to join to come in later. 
 Security forces are to be reformed to create a professional 
army without ethnic, clan, or regional domination, and a 
police and gendarmerie purged of executive influence. 
Territorial and public administrations are to be 
professionalized, decentralized, and purged of fictitious and 
un-official employees.  The justice system is to be 
restructured, with a Special Commission to replace the 
current High Council of Magistrates in order to identify and 
sanction the Council's derogations of justice.  Communal and 
legislative elections are to be organized, based on a general 
census, followed by an electoral census and the creation of 
computerized electoral rolls. 
 
Government of Broad Union 
-------------------------- 
 
¶5. (C) The CPDC draft proposes that a unity government 
implement the road map.  At its head would be a multi-headed 
executive organ that would surround the President -- 
presumably, but not explicitly, President Deby -- with two 
Vice Presidents and two Permanent Secretaries, which the 
political parties, armed opposition, human rights 
organizations and union representatives would somehow 
designate.  This "Executive" would provide moral authority 
over the "Government for Peace, Unity and Democracy, drawn 
 
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from the range of political forces in the country, and headed 
by a Prime Minister from the political opposition with broad 
powers to implement the road map of reforms. 
 
¶6. (C) This institutional structure would require extensive 
amendments to articles of the current constitution defining 
the roles and powers of the President of the Republic and 
Prime Minister.  Indeed, the CPDC proposal recognized that, 
given the perceived corruption of all the organs of state, it 
will be necessary to review the powers of the National 
Assembly, Constitutional Council, Supreme Court, and 
Communication High Council -- proposing that all these be 
either suspended or dissolved. 
 
FOREIGNERS TO IMPOSE IT ALL 
---------------------------- 
 
¶7. (C) The CPDC, predicting obstruction and difficulties 
emanating from the President, calls for a resolution of the 
AU, or if necessary from the UN Security Council, creating an 
international oversight committee to supervise the 
implementation of the commitments that the parties to the 
National Pact have made.  The committee would draw its 
membership from the AU and the United Nations, as well as the 
USG and the EU.  It would have responsibility for evaluating 
the road map's implementation, proposing supplemental 
measures, resolving diffculties, identifying 
obstructionists, and proposig sanctions. 
 
¶8. (C) The process to accomplish tis ambitious agenda would 
begin with internationl apprval of the scheme, with the USG 
to help sell it to the wider international community.  Once 
there is full support from the broad international community, 
it will bear the responsibility for bringing President Deby 
on board, through persuasion or coercion, as needed.  The 
CPDC would seek buy-in from civil society, unions and human 
rights organizations -- with the help of the international 
community. 
 
¶9. (C) Almost as an after thought, the CPDC draft suggests 
that all of the above might provide appropriate grist for a 
Forum for National Dialogue.  The international community 
would, of course, be asked to set this up, including format, 
time, place, and funding. 
 
COMMENT 
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¶10. (C) Short of demanding the immediate resignation of 
President Deby, it is difficult to imagine a set of proposals 
less likely to be embraced by the existing power structure. 
The CPDC essentially calls for the dismantling of the State 
as it currently exists, under international supervision -- 
hardly an idea that will gain traction in Chad's environment 
of political stalemate and armed rebellion.  In short, 
there's not much to work with here.  END COMMENT. 
 
¶11. (U) Tripoli Minimize Considered. 
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