The constitutional court said the candidates’ applications had been rejected because they included “irregularities”.
Ten other candidates remain in the race, most prominently the current junta leader Mahamat Idriss-Itno and his Prime Minister Succes Masra.
General Idriss-Itno was proclaimed president by a junta of fifteen generals in 2021 following the death of his father Deby Itno, who had ruled the Sahel country with an iron fist for more than three decades.
The new president promised to hand power back to a civilian government within eighteen months and told the African Union he would not stand for election as president.
But he then extended the transition period by two more years and on March 2 officially announced he would run for the top office.
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