The National Convention for Social Democracy (french: Convention national pour la Démocratie Sociale, CNDS) is a political party in

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 ...

History

The party nominated Adoum Moussa Seif as its candidate for the 1996 presidential elections; Seif finished seventh out of fifteen candidates with 3% of the vote.Chad: 1996 Presidential election results
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parliamentary elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

the following year the party won one seat in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

. The CNDS supported incumbent President

Idriss Déby Idriss Déby Itno ' (18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021. Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ranki ...

in the 2001 presidential elections,Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p264 and retained its single seat in the 2002 parliamentary elections. It contested the 2011 parliamentary elections in an alliance with

Action for Renewal of Chad The Action for Renewal of Chad () is a political party in Chad. In the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public offi ...

, with the joint ticket winning one seat.

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