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Election registration centres opened in Togo for people who want to vote in local and legislative elections due to be held sometime this year. The exact date for the election is not yet announced
Election registration centres opened in Togo for people who want to vote in local and legislative elections due to be held sometime this year. The exact date for the election is not yet announced.
Whilst some voters have been registered successfully, may remain to be registered, although there is no let-up in long queues. Those who could not register were told that there was no paper left to register them or that the computers were not working.
In 2018, President Faure Gnassingbé’s party got a majority of 59 seats, of the 91 of the National Assembly, whilst the leaders of the main coalition of 14 opposition parties boycotted the election. They’d grown angry after more than a year of serious political crisis and dozens of protest marches, which were severely repressed, against a reform allowing the president to stand for re-election in 2020 and 2025.
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Analysts say that Togo’s eight million or so people want change. Apart from poverty, the country is facing attacks by Islamic extremists. The same family has been in power for 56 years. The present incumbent Gnassingbé has been president since 2005. Before him, it was his father Gnassingbé Eyadéma who seized power in 1967.
