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When did Chad hold its first multiparty presidential election?
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Chad held its first multiparty presidential election in 1996. Following a national conference in 1993 that established a transitional government, a new constitution was approved in 1996, which paved the way for the country's first multiparty presidential elections that same year, resulting in the election of Idriss Déby.1