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Bangui, Central African Republic, May 30 (AFP\/APP): President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic said Tuesday that he would call a referendum on a new constitution that would allow him to seek a new term.<\/p>\n

“I have decided… to submit this project for a new constitution to a referendum,” he said in an address to the nation posted on Facebook, without saying when the vote would take place.<\/p>\n

Touadera’s opponents have already accused him of seeking to extend his rule despite constitutional limits in one of the world’s poorest and most unstable countries.<\/p>\n

Touadera was elected in 2016 and was returned for a second term in 2020, despite widespread accusations of electoral flaws.<\/p>\n

In October, he removed the country’s top judge, Daniele Darlan, in what critics denounced as a “constitutional coup d’etat” after she opposed presidential decrees aimed at revising the constitution.<\/p>\n

Currently a president can serve only two terms.<\/p>\n

“There won’t be a third term, but the count will be set back to zero, so anyone can seek a new term, including Touadera if he wants,” the president’s main advisor, Fidele Gouandjika, told AFP after the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bangui, Central African Republic, May 30 (AFP\/APP): President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic said Tuesday that he would call a referendum on a new constitution that would allow him to seek a new term. “I have decided… to submit this project for […]<\/p>\n

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