This January 13, 2025, during a tribute to the first Togolese head of state assassinated 62 years ago, part of the opposition demanded the holding of a presidential election. “On February 20, 2025, the fourth presidential term of Mr. Faure Gnassingbé, in power for two decades, will end,” declared David Dosseh, spokesperson for the Togo-Debout coalition. The country has entered the Fifth Republic since the promulgation, in early May 2024, of a new Constitution. It went from a presidential regime to a parliamentary regime which abolishes presidential elections by direct universal suffrage.
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The Togo-Debout front demands “the election of a new president” during the commemoration of the death of Sylvanus Olympio
