Union for Democracy and the Republic (Chad)

The Union for Democracy and Republic ("Union pour la Démocratie et la République" or UDR) is a Chadian political party founded in 1992. In March the party elected as its president Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, who had just left the position of Prime Minister. In the parliamentary election of 1997 the party took 4 seats and initially supported the president Idriss Déby. Before the parliamentary elections, between 1995 and 1997, the Prime Minister was Koibla Djimasta, himself of the UDR. [Alan John Day, "Political Parties of the World", (2002), 95.] During the previous presidential elections held in 1996 the party's candidate, Alingué, gained most of his votes in his native Tandjilé Prefecture, where he obtained the 39.69% of the popular vote, but also came second in the captal N'Djamena, where he took 16,52%. [citation|author=Buijtenhuijs, Robert|title=Transition et élections au Tchad, 1993-1997: restauration autoritaire et recomposition politique|publisher=Karthala|year=1998|pages=318|id=ISBN 2-86537-868-3]

In the following parliamentary election held in 2002, the UDC boycotted the vote as it believed there weren't sufficient guarantees of a free and fair election, in particular having requested to redo the electoral register. [ [http://www.afrique-express.com/archive/CENTRALE/tchad/tchadpol/245auxurnes.htm UNDR Saleh Kebzabo Jean Bawoyeu Alingue Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh ] ]

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