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"Mr President, Commissioner, I think that the elections in Chad are a textbook case for those throughout the world who want a user’s manual for producing an electoral farce. First of all, there is a climate of persecution against all opponents, with union activists being arrested and then the ballot boxes are stuffed with an extra one million votes.
I would say, however, to all those who still doubt whether a policy of neo-colonialism is at work, that it is the international community and above all, my country, France that bear responsibility for what has happened in Chad. France has maintained a military presence in that country since independence. The army printed the ballot papers and made the ballot boxes. It is the army that transported the material needed for voting to the most distant provinces of this vast desert country.
I therefore feel that France bears direct responsibility and that France has colluded in this electoral fraud, or, in any event, has directly or indirectly contributed to it. The silence of the international community is due to the fact that enormous oil deposits have just been discovered in Chad.
The Commission and the European Union, Commissioner, must immediately condemn the role of the international oil companies, which not only show no concern for the environment, but also care little for the interests of the communities they affect and even less for democracy. I therefore feel that this is a real textbook case, which we could still call, forgive me for saying so, a neo-colonialist policy in Africa."@en1
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