Presidential election in Togo 2010
The 2010 presidential elections in Togo took place on March 4, 2010 in Togo , West Africa . According to the official result, the ruling President Faure Gnassingbé won more than 60% of all votes and Jean-Pierre Fabre , his only serious competitor, 33%. Of the remaining five candidates, Yawovi Agboyibo was the only one to receive more than 1% approval with 3% of the votes cast .
After Gnassingbé's victory in the last presidential election in 2005 had been widely doubted and had sparked violent protests, he tried to make the election process more credible. Nevertheless, the opposition accused him of massive electoral fraud. In their report, election observers from the European Union recorded voting purchases by the ruling party, but saw no evidence of the widespread election fraud alleged by the opposition and, like other international observers, came to the conclusion that the "irregularities" observed had no decisive influence on the overall result . After his victory was confirmed by the National Electoral Commission, Gnassingbé again took his oath of office as President of Togo on May 3, 2010.
The candidates
Accepted candidates:
- Faure Gnassingbé is the son of Togo's long-time dictator and president Gnassingbé Eyadéma . At the time of the election, he had been in the presidency for 5 years after the sudden death of his father under circumstances that were as controversial as his subsequent victory in the presidential elections in 2005. Gnassingbé is also president of the ruling party Rassemblement du peuple togolais .
- Jean-Pierre Fabre is General Secretary of the Union des Forces du Changement party . His party's original candidate, however, was its president Gilchrist Olympio , son of Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio , who was assassinated in 1963 . Fabre became his party's candidate only because of an illness of his internal party competitor Gilchrist Olympio.
- Yawovi Agboyibo is the chairman of the Comité d'Action pour le Renouveau (CAR) party and was Prime Minister of Togofrom 2006 to 2007.
- Agbéyomé Messan Kodjo was also Prime Minister of the country from 2000 to 2002.
- Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson is active in the Togolese women's movement and is the first woman ever to run for the presidency in Togo.
- Bassabi Kagbara , candidate of the Conseil national du parti démocratique panafricain (PDP) is a professor and doctor of business law.
- Nicolas Lawson is the president of the Parti pour le Renouveau et la Rédemption party
Candidates not accepted:
- The 72-year-old Gilchrist Olympio , who lived in the USA at the time , was a permanent candidate for his Union des Forces du Changement party, but a back disease prevented him from getting to Togo in time to undergo the medical examination required for presidential candidates.
- Dahuku Péré
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- Kokou Ségnon Nsoukpoe were rejected by the electoral commission because they were unable to leave the deposit, which was the condition for acceptance of the candidacy and which should be paid back if more than 5% of the vote was reached.
- Originally, Kofi Yamgnane was also accepted as an independent candidate by the electoral commission . Yamgnane has both French and Togolese citizenship. However, the Constitutional Court rejected his candidacy because there was a discrepancy between his French identity document and his Togolese documents related to his date of birth. The rejected Yamgnane saw this as an attempt by the rulers to throw a candidate who was dangerous to them from the race.
Disagreement among the opposition
Attempts by the opposition to agree on a candidate in the run-up to the election failed. However, Agbéyomé Kodjo withdrew his candidacy in favor of Fabré (but his name still appeared on the ballot) and the rejected Yamgnane also declared his support for Fabré.
Official results
The provisional results of the Togolese Electoral Commission, Commission Electoral Nationale:
| Candidate - Nominating Party | be right | % |
|---|---|---|
| Faure Gnassingbé - Rassemblement du peuple togolais | 1 234 044 | 60.9 |
| Jean-Pierre Fabre - Union des Forces de Changement | 692 584 | 33.9 |
| Yawovi Agboyibo - Committee of Action pour le Renouveau | 60 388 | 3.0 |
| Agbéyomé Kodjo - Organization pour bâtir dans l'union un Togo solidaire | 17 397 | 0.9 |
| Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson - Convention démocratique des peuples africains | 13 451 | 0.7 |
| Bassabi Kagbara - Parti démocratique panafricain | 8 357 | 0.4 |
| Nicolas Lawson - Parti pour le Renouveau et la Rédemption | 6 029 | 0.3 |
| Total (turnout 65.7%) | 2,040,506 | |
| Registered voters | 3,599,306 | |
| Total votes | 2 119 829 | |
| Invalid votes (1.6%) | 79 283 |
After the election: split of the UFC
After the election there was an open rift between the factions Fabrés and Olympios within the UFC as the largest opposition party. Olympio had started negotiations with Gnassingbé regarding the participation of the UFC and achieved that 7 out of 31 ministers in the new government were appointed by the UFC. Fabré called the agreement, however, as contrary to the will of the National Office of the UFC. The inner-party conflict finally ended with the expulsion of Olympios from the party of which he was the founder and long-time president.
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- ↑ Rukmini Callimachi, "Togo security blocks opposition headquarters" , Associated Press, March 8, 2010 according to : Togolese presidential election, 2010 , article is currently no longer available
- ↑ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5430.htm accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Politique/Une-femme-representera-la-CDPA accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Politique/Bassabi-Kagbara-candidat-du-PDP accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ google.com/hostednews/afp ( memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Presidentielle/La-Ceni-au-rapport accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Presidentielle/La-Ceni-au-rapport accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ google.com/hostednews/afp ( memento of July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Presidentielle/La-reunion-de-Paris-se-solde-par-un-echec accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ceni-togo.org, "Provisional Result" of the Commission Electoral Nationale, no recent documents cited, accessed January 26, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Politique/Divorce-consomme-entre-Fabre-et-Olympio accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Politique/Divorce-consomme-entre-Fabre-et-Olympio accessed on January 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.republicoftogo.com/Toutes-les-rubriques/Politique/Olympio-exclu-du-parti-qu-il-a-fonde accessed on January 29, 2011
