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Title I: Of the State and of Sovereignty
• Official religion
• Separation of church and state
• Type of government envisioned
Article 1
Chad is a sovereign Republic, independent, secular, social, one and indivisible,
founded on the principles of democracy, the rule of law and of justice. It has affirmed
the separation of the religions and of the State.
Article 2
Covering an area of one million two hundred eighty-four thousand (1 284 000) km2,
the Republic of Chad is organized in decentralized territorial collectivities of which
the autonomy is guaranteed by this Constitution.
Article 3
• Referenda
Sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it either directly by referendum, or
indirectly by the intermediary of their elected representatives.
No community, no corporation, no political party or association, no trade union
organization, no individual or group of individuals may arrogate its exercise.
The conditions of recourse to the referendum are determined by this Constitution
and by an organic law.
• Right to form political parties
Article 4
The political parties and groups concur in the exercise of suffrage. They form
themselves freely and exercise their activities within the conditions provided for by
the law and within respect for the principles of national sovereignty, of territorial
integrity, of national unity and of pluralist democracy.
Article 5
Any propaganda of ethnic, tribal, regional or religious character tending to infringe
the national unity or the secularity of the State is prohibited.
• Secret ballot
• Restrictions on voting
• Claim of universal suffrage
Article 6
Suffrage is universal, direct or indirect, equal and secret.
All Chadians of both sexes, aged eighteen years of age and enjoying their civil and
political rights[,] are electors within the conditions established by the law.
Article 7
The principle of the exercise of power is the Government of the people by the people
and for the people, founded on the separation of the Executive, Legislative and
Judicial powers.
Article 8
Chad 1996 (rev. 2005)
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