Federation, Action for the Republic (french: Fédération, action pour la république, FAR/Parti Fédération) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

. It is considered a radical opposition party and is led by

Ngarlejy Yorongar Ngarlejy Koji Yorongar le Moinban is a Chadian politician. He is the Executive Federal Coordinator of the Federation, Action for the Republic (in French: ''Fédération, action pour la république'' or FAR), a radical opposition party, as well as ...

. The FAR supports

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.''Political Parties of the World'' (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 118. In the 1997 parliamentary election, the FAR won one seat in the

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."RAPPORT DE LA MISSION D’OBSERVATION DU DEUXIEME TOURDES ELECTIONS LEGISLATIVES DU 23 FEVRIER 1997"
, democratie.francophonie.org . Yorongar was the only FAR candidate to win a seat. Its candidate for the 20 May 2001

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, Yorongar, has been a prominent critic of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. According to official results, he won 396,864 votes or 6.35%. Six opposition candidates were detained on May 30 after contesting the results. Yorongar was tortured, along with Abderhamane Djesnebaye, including by being beaten with iron bars. In the

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held on 21 April 2002, the party won 10 out of 155 seats. The FAR was the only major opposition party to not sign an agreement on August 13, 2007 that provided for improved electoral organization ahead of the next parliamentary election, now planned for 2009. Yorongar criticized the agreement as inadequate and said that there should instead be a dialogue involving the entire political scene, including rebels, the exiled opposition, and civil society, and that a credible election could not be conducted while a rebellion was taking place in part of the country."Tchad: l'opposant Yorongar refuse de perdre du temps à signer un accord vain"
, AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), August 14, 2007 .

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Federalist parties Political parties in Chad {{Chad-stub