106:, held along with the parliamentary first round on 13 March, as the FODEM candidate. Prior to the election, his presidential candidacy was rejected, along with a number of other candidates, by the Constitutional Court on December 30, 2004; however, on January 4, 2005, Bozizé announced that Massi, along with two other initially barred candidates, would be allowed to run. In the election, he placed fifth out of eleven candidates and received 3.22% of the vote. On April 21, Massi signed an agreement to support Bozizé in the second round of the election, and after Bozizé's victory, Massi became Minister of State for Equipment, Transport and Civil Aviation in the government of Prime Minister
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he said that he had told the French ambassador "that Mrs. Massi should have advised her husband not to take part in a rebellion against me". Nevertheless, the matter remained confused. Although Massi's family believed him to be dead, an official legal investigation announced in August 2010 that it had found no evidence to suggest that Massi had died at
Bossembélé, and it said that Massi was accordingly considered to be missing and "presumed alive".
145:. Their information was said to have come from sources at Bossembele as well as sources around the Presidency. If they were wrong in believing Massi was dead, their statement called on Bozizé to prove he was still alive. The Central African Ministry of Defense formally denied killing Massi in a statement on 21 January and said that the government did not know where he was.
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Later, on 30 January 2010, President Bozizé acknowledged that Massi had been killed, although he provided no details. He was dismissive of the concerns of human rights groups, saying that those groups had not shown similar concern "when 15 of our soldiers were killed by Massi's rebels". Furthermore,
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After Bozizé took power, Massi was elected as Second Vice-president of the
National Transitional Council on 14 June 2003, serving in that capacity until the new National Assembly was installed in June 2005. Massi was again elected to the National Assembly from Baboua in the second round of the
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and was arrested by the
Chadian authorities, who announced that they would put him on trial for "attempting to destabilize a neighbouring country". The Chadians reportedly released Massi after a time, however. Massi's group, then called the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP),
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Massi founded FODEM on 27 November 1997 and was dismissed from the government in
December, due to the establishment of FODEM and, according to Massi, his opposition to corruption. FODEM was legally recognized on 4 May 1998. He served as a Deputy from Baboua in the
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126:(UFDR) rebel group on 12 May 2008; FODEM responded to this by suspending Massi from the party on 16 May, and he was expelled from the Presidential Majority on 18 May. FODEM established a provisional political bureau on 22 May 2008 with
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