| | Chad votes lets President Deby run for office again - Boston.com - Africa - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Chadians have agreed to a change in their constitution to allow President Idriss Deby, in power since 1990, to stand for a third term in office, the provisional results of a referendum showed on Tuesday. |
 | | Just under 78 percent of those who voted were in favor of the amendment, already passed by Chad's parliament, which removes a two-term limit for heads of state and age limit of 70 for presidential candidates, the electoral commission said. |
 | | The constitutional change makes Deby, born in 1952, the latest in a long line of African leaders to have changed the law so they can stand for re-election, although he has publicly said the ballot was not designed to benefit him. |
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