A constitutional court in the Central African Republic began examining on Wednesday a request to disqualify the head of state from the presidential election scheduled for next December.<\/p>\n
The petition, filed by\u00a0the Observatory for Democratic Governance\u00a0, a civil society organization, argues that President\u00a0Faustin Archange Touad\u00e9ra\u00a0should be disqualified on the grounds that he does not meet the criteria required to run for president.<\/p>\n
\u00c9lys\u00e9e Nguimal\u00e9, president of the group, disputes the origin of the president’s name, claiming that it would indicate a lineage impossible to trace \u2014 a requirement stipulated by the country’s Constitution.<\/p>\n
“The name Touad\u00e9ra, in his native language, means a child abandoned by his maternal uncles<\/em>\u00a0,” Nguimal\u00e9 stated in his petition. He clarified that this name, according to Article 65 of the Family Code, signifies that the father is unknown and that,\u00a0“since his father is unknown, his origin is ambiguous<\/em>\u00a0. ”<\/p>\n It was not immediately clear whether the court would accept this argument or when a verdict would be reached.<\/p>\n The Minister of Territorial Administration, Bruno Yapand\u00e9, rejected Nguimal\u00e9’s request, describing it as a tool intended to\u00a0“sow confusion among the population”<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n The final list of candidates for the election has not yet been published. The president is seeking a third term, which would extend his rule into a second decade\u2014a possibility made possible after the removal of\u00a0term limits\u00a0in 2023.<\/p>\n This affair comes as the government refuses to issue a passport to opposition leader\u00a0Anicet Georges Dologu\u00e9l\u00e9\u00a0, potentially rendering him\u00a0stateless\u00a0. The December 28 election will take place against a backdrop of a persistent security crisis, while the president seeks security support from Russia.<\/p>\n A constitutional court in the Central African Republic began examining on Wednesday a request to disqualify the head of state from the presidential election scheduled for next December. The petition, filed by\u00a0the Observatory for Democratic Governance\u00a0, a civil society organization, argues that President\u00a0Faustin Archange Touad\u00e9ra\u00a0should be disqualified on the grounds that he does not meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"AP","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2362,33],"tags":[1134,1137,4619],"class_list":["post-18588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-featured","category-politics","tag-central-african-republic","tag-faustin-archange-touadera","tag-observatory-for-democratic-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}