Succès Masra (Arabic: سوكسيه ماسرا; born 30 August 1983) is a Chadian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Chad from 1 January to 22 May 2024.

[3] Masra was a noted critic of Idriss Déby, who had served as president since 1990, and whose regime had been described as authoritarian and corrupt by some international media sources.

[7] Masra publicly objected to Déby's candidacy, citing the Chadian constitution of 2018, which stated that presidential terms would last for six years and would be renewable only once.

[8] In May 2022, protests took place in N'Djamena against the presence of French troops in the country; France, a former coloniser of Chad, was accused of propping up the CMT junta.

[14] Les Transformeurs, alongside the civil society group Wakit Tamma, backed the protests, which were suppressed by the government, leading to the deaths of at least twelve people.

[16][17] By August 2022, Les Transformeurs and Wakit Tama had announced that they would not partake in dialogue planned for the following month; Masra stated that he believed that the preconditions could be too easily annulled by the CMT.

[23][24] In October 2022, protests broke out within Chad after Déby publicly announced his intention to extend his rule by a further two years, reconstituting the CMT as the National Transitional Council (CNT), rather than transferring power to a civilian government as he had originally promised.

[25][26] The government's violent response to the protests led to the deaths of at least 50 protestors; Masra put the figure at least 70, with over a thousand tortured or injured.

Subsequent posts on social media revealed that the N'Djamena Court of Appeal had issued a previously unknown international arrest warrant against Masra in June 2023, accusing him of "inciting hatred and revolt" and attempting to "undermine constitutional order".

[29][32] Human Rights Watch stated Chad's transitional government threatening an exiled opposition leader with arrest demonstrated that "fundamental freedoms are still very much at risk" in the country ahead of the referendum.