Lydie Beassemda

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Lydie Beassemda is a Chadian politician and the first woman to run for the office of the president of the Republic of Chad.^[1][2] She was one of the six candidates that challenged incumbent president Idriss Deby Itno who won the April 11, 2021 poll. She campaigned on breaking down ethnic rivalries and improving women's rights. Beassemda was previously Minister of Agriculture. She is a human rights activist and gender equality campaigner.

Education and political[]

Beassemda holds a master's degree in Natural Sciences and two DESS in agro-food and development planning. She won a municipal parliamentary election for the 3rd district of N’Djamena in 2011 but was upturned by the supreme court in 2012. In the 2016 presidential election, Beassemda was the presidential campaign manager to her father Beassemda Djebaret Julien who ran on the ticket of Party for Democracy and Independence (PDI) which he founded. Beassemda served as the Federal Secretary of the party from 2014 until 2018 when she took over the leadership of the party after the death of her father. She served as the Minister of Agriculture for 18 months. Beassemda sits on National Framework for Political Dialogue (CNDP).^[3][4]

Presidential bid[]

Beassemda ran in the April 2021 presidential election on the ticket of Party for Democracy and Independence. She was the first and only woman among other five candidates who ran against long serving president Idriss Deby. Beassemda campaign focused on solving ethnic tension and rivalries and improving women's rights. She received 145,867 or 3.16 per cent of the votes to place third.^[5]

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