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Patriotic Salvation Movement Mouvement Patriotique du Salut | |
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| Arabic name | الحركة الوطنية للإنقاذ |
| Abbreviation | MPS |
| President | Haroun Kabadi |
| Secretary-General | Mahamat Zen Bada |
| Honorary President | Mahamat Déby[1] |
| Founder | Idriss Déby Abbas Koty Bada Abbas Maldoum Hissein Dassert |
| Founded | 11 March 1990 (1990-03-11) |
| Merger of | 1 April Movement MOSONAT FAT/MRP |
| Ideology | Nationalism Authoritarianism[2][3]Secularism[4] Mixed economy[5] Historical: Socialism[6] |
| Political position | Big tent |
| Slogan | Mourir pour le Salut ('Dying for Salvation') |
| Seats in the National Assembly | 124 / 188 |
| Seats in the Senate | 63 / 69 |
| Website | |
| www.mps-tchad.org | |
ThePatriotic Salvation Movement (French:Mouvement patriotique du salut,MPS;Arabic:الحركة الوطنية للإنقاذ,romanized: al-ḥarakah al-waṭaniyah lil-inqāḏ) is the rulingpolitical party inChad.
AfterIdriss Déby, an army commander who participated in an unsuccessful plot against PresidentHissène Habré in 1989, fled toSudan, he and his supporters, known as the 1 April Movement, operated from Sudan withLibyan backing and carried out attacks across the border into Chad. The MPS was founded in Sudan on 11 March 1990 through the merger of the 1 April Movement with other anti-Habre groups in exile. After a successful offensive in November 1990, Déby and the MPS came to power on 2 December 1990, when their forces enteredN'Djamena, the Chadian capital.[7]
Idriss Déby was the MPS candidate in the1996 presidential election and won in a second round. He was again the MPS candidate in thepresidential election of 20 May 2001, receiving 63.2% of the vote. In theparliamentary election held on 21 April 2002, the MPS won according toIPU Parline 113 out of 155 seats. In theMay 2006 presidential election, Déby was re-elected with 64.7% of the vote, as well as in 2011, 2016, and 2021.
After Idriss Déby was shot and died during theNorthern Chad offensive in 2021, he was succeeded by his sonMahamat Déby Itno, with the country's constitution being suspended. In the December 2024 elections, the party received 124 out of 188 legislative seats in a process widely derided as fraudulent and only presenting the appearance of democracy.[8][9]
On January 25, 2025, Mahamat Idriss Deby called an extraordinary congress of the MPS for January 29, 2025.[10]
| Election | Party candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 1996 | Idriss Déby | 1,016,277 | 43.82% | 2,102,907 | 69.09% | Elected Y |
| 2001 | 1,533,509 | 63.17% | — | — | ElectedY | |
| 2006 | 1,863,042 | 64.67% | — | — | ElectedY | |
| 2011 | 2,503,813 | 88.66% | — | — | ElectedY | |
| 2016 | 2,219,352 | 59.92% | — | — | ElectedY | |
| 2021[a] | 3,663,431 | 79.32% | — | — | ElectedY | |
| 2024 | Mahamat Déby | 3,777,279 | 61.00% | — | — | ElectedY |
| Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Result |
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| 1997 | 504,045 | 40.0% | 262,060% | 34.4% | 65 / 125 | New | 1st | Majority government | |
| 2002 | Nagoum Yamassoum | — | — | 113 / 155 |  48 |  1st | Supermajority government | ||
| 2011 | Haroun Kabadi | in alliance withRDP andRNDP | 134 / 187 | 21 | 1st | MPS–RDP–RNDP coalition government | |||
| 2024 | — | 124 / 188 |  10 | 1st | Majority government | ||||
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