Parliamentary election in Togo 2013
The parliamentary elections in Togo took place on July 25, 2013.
The elections were originally supposed to take place in October 2012 but had to be postponed to March 24, 2013, then to July 21, and finally to July 25, 2013 due to protests.
Electoral system
The 91 members of the National Assembly , the Togolese parliament, were elected . So far this has included 81 people.
For the elections, the country was divided into 30 electoral districts. Each district had between two and ten seats. A total of 1174 Togolese applied for a seat of parliament, among them 159 women and 31 previous parliamentarians.
background
The elections had to be postponed several times as the opposition parties demanded electoral reforms. It was not until July that the government made some concessions and released ten opposition activists who were arrested in January for arson in two markets. In addition, the opposition was allowed to provide some representatives of the election commission and in the polling stations and received financial support for the election campaign. Fundamental reforms failed to materialize. In the run-up to the elections, there were street protests against which the security forces used tear gas.
The polls went off without incident. According to election observers from the African Union and ECOWAS , the elections were fair. The opposition party CST claims, however, that there were irregularities.
Result
The ruling party UNIR clearly won the elections. According to the provisional results, the party around President Faure Gnassingbé is said to have won 62 of the 91 seats. Especially in the north of the country she was able to get a lot of votes. Opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre's CST coalition had 19 seats. She received a lot of support from the capital Lomé , where she was able to secure seven of the ten seats. The former opposition party around Gilchrist Olympio can now only have three MPs.
The following list contains the provisional election result. This now has to be confirmed by the constitutional court.
| Parties | Seats |
|---|---|
| Union pour la republique (UNIR) | 62 |
| Collectif Sauvons le Togo (CST) | 19th |
| Alliance Arc-en-ciel | 6th |
| Union des Forces du Changement (UFC) | 3 |
| independent candidates | 1 |
Web links
- Official website of the Togolese National Assembly (French)
- Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante Togo (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Togo to kick off voter registration on March 15th March 7th 2013, accessed on 4th July 2013 (English).
- ↑ Togo schedules parliamentary elections amid opposition protests. June 8, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
- ^ Togo delays parliamentary election. July 11, 2013, accessed July 25, 2013 .
- ^ Decree. (PDF; 3.3 MB) Retrieved on July 4, 2013 (French).
- ↑ TOGO: Legislatives au Togo: Quelque 1,174 candidats dont 159 femmes (avec tous les suppléants) en lice pour ce scrutin. Retrieved July 4, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Elections législatives 2013. (No longer available online.) July 23, 2013, archived from the original on August 4, 2013 ; Retrieved July 25, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Q&A: Togo's parliamentary election. Retrieved July 29, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Presidential party clearly wins parliamentary election in Togo. Retrieved July 29, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Elections keep Togo's ruling family in power. Retrieved July 29, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Legislatives 2013: la CENI proclame les résultats provisoires. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2013 ; Retrieved July 29, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
