YAOUNDE, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Ali Kolotou Tchaimi, a senior member of the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), Chad's ruling party, was elected the country's speaker of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

During an elective plenary session of the parliament in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena, the 53-year-old, who was the lone candidate, was elected by consensus.

A military and civil administrator, he has held several top-ranking positions, including first vice president of the country's National Transitional Council and vice president of the parliament of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States.

He was elected the parliamentary speaker as the Central African nation was holding the first session of its new parliament, the first of its kind in more than a decade, with 188 lawmakers sworn in at the session.

The new parliament was elected in December 2024, and the MPS secured 124 seats out of 188, according to official results released by the country's Constitutional Council.

Parliamentary elections were last held in the Central African nation in 2011. The mandate of the lawmakers was scheduled to end in 2015, but authorities postponed the elections several times, citing a lack of money to manage the elections and COVID-19 disruptions.

In 2021, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno assumed power after his father, Idriss Deby Itno, died of wounds sustained on the front line in the country's north. He led a three-year transitional government before convening legislative, regional, and municipal elections on Dec. 29, 2024. Enditem

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