The attacker was part of a group of people demanding the right to vote at a polling station in Moundou, and one of them opened fire indiscriminately, hitting a 65-year-old man who had just voted, said Ousmane Houzibé, head of mission of the National Agency for Electoral Management (ANGE) in Moundou, quoted by the France Presse agency. Chadians are voting today to elect a President, concluding a three-year transition process so far led by a military regime. The presidential election offers more than eight million voters the possibility of choosing between ten candidates approved to run, of which two stand out: the head of the military junta, General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, and his Prime Minister, Succès Masra, a former opponent who last January joined the regime of the first, in an unprecedented duel in the country. Along the way, ten other candidates were prevented from running, in a process in which the majority of the opposition was violently repressed and excluded from the race, and called for a boycott of a ballot. These elections, say many excluded political parties and non-governmental organizations, constitute a "game played in advance" to perpetuate the "Déby dynasty", in a process full of clear signs of lack of credibility. In Ndjamena, it was difficult to assess the level of enthusiasm at noon, according to AFP, which visited more than 20 polling stations, which it found deserted under the suffocating heat of midday. At the beginning of the campaign, all observers predicted a massive victory for the transitional President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, son of the former dictator of Chad, Idriss Déby Itno, after having removed all his most dangerous rivals, including a cousin, Yaya Dillo, shot dead at point-blank range days before the first posters of Mahamat began to be pasted, which today impose a monochromatic pattern on the main streets of the Chadian capital. The economist Succès Masra, despite being accused by his former allies in the opposition of being a "traitor" who joined Déby's regime and of being a false candidate only needed to "give a democratic veneer" to the ballot, however, in the last days of the campaign, he assumed himself as a possible "spoiler", attracting large crowds to his rallies, and seeming to be able to, at least, push the young general into a second round. If a second round were to happen, it would be another absolute novelty, in a country that has lived for almost four decades under the "iron fist" of the same family, which for about two decades has been rehearsing a simulation of democracy through elections that have only served to play the game of international legitimation. The result of these elections will have to be known by the 21st, the deadline for the validation of the process by the Constitutional Council made up of elements of Mahamat Déby's confidence. No calendar is known for a possible second round of these presidential elections, nor is it known when the legislative elections will be held, which should have preceded this ballot, under penalty of this inverse process producing "clientelism" instead of "true parties running for the Chadian parliament", as the analyst from the Institute for Securities Studies (ISS) for Central Africa, Remadji Hoinathy, recently pointed out in statements to Lusa. Read Also: Seven countries notify Guterres that they want to contribute to support for Haiti (Portuguese version)