Togolese presidential election, 2010

The presidential elections in Togo were held in 2010 in the West African Togo on 4 March 2010. According to the official result of the ruling President Faure Gnassingbe won more than 60 % of all votes and Jean -Pierre Fabre, his only serious competitor, 33 %. Of the remaining five candidates received 3 % of the votes cast Yawovi Agboyibo the only more than 1 % agreement.

After Gnassingbés victory in the last presidential elections in 2005 was widely disputed, and had triggered violent protests, he endeavored in these elections to greater credibility of the electoral process. Nevertheless, the opposition accused him massive electoral fraud. Registered election observers from the European Union in its report, although vote-buying by the ruling party, but saw no evidence of the of the opposition alleged widespread election fraud and arrived just as other international observers to the conclusion that the observed had no decisive influence on the overall result of "irregularities ". Gnassingbé laid upon confirmation of his victory by the National Electoral Commission on 3 May 2010 renewed his oath of office as President of Togo from.

Candidates

Accepted candidates:

  • Faure Gnassingbe, the son of Togo's President Gnassingbé longtime dictator Eyadema. At the time of the election, he was 5 years in the presidency, which he took over after the sudden death of his father in circumstances that were just as controversial as his subsequent victory in the presidential elections of 2005. Gnassingbé is also president of the ruling party, Rassemblement du peuple togolais.
  • Jean -Pierre Fabre is the General Secretary of the party Union des Forces du changement. However, Original candidate of his party was the president of Gilchrist Olympio, son of the first, in 1963 assassinated President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Fabre has become a candidate of his party only due to illness of his intra-party rivals Gilchrist Olympio.
  • Yawovi Agboyibo is the chairman of the party Comité d' Action pour la renouveau ( CAR) and was Prime Minister of Togo from 2006 to 2007.
  • Agbéyomé Messan Kodjo was from 2000 to 2002 also Prime Minister of the country.
  • Brigitte Adjamagbo -Johnson is active in the Togolese women's movement and the first woman ever to running for the presidency in Togo.
  • Bassabi Kagbara, candidate of the Conseil national du parti démocratique panafricain (PDP ) is Professor and Doctor of Business Law.
  • Nicolas Lawson is the president of the party Parti pour le Renouveau et la Rédemption

Not accepted candidates:

  • Living in the U.S. then 72 -year-old Gilchrist Olympio was provided by his party Union des Forces du changement fixed as a candidate, but was prevented by a spinal disease because in time to come to Togo to undergo the prescribed for presidential candidates health examination.
  • Dahuku Péré

And

  • Kokou Ségnon Nsoukpoe were rejected by the Election Commission, as they were not able to deposit the security deposit, which was the condition for the acceptance of candidature and should be repaid at a reaching more than 5% of the votes.
  • Accepted by the Election Commission was originally even Kofi Yamgnane as an independent candidate. Yamgnane has both the French and the Togolese citizenship. However, the Constitutional Court rejected his candidacy because there was a contradiction based on his date of birth between his French identity document and his Togolese documents. The rejected Yamgnane saw it as an attempt of governments to take a dangerous for them candidates out of the race.

Disunity of the opposition

Attempts by the opposition to agree in advance of the election on a candidate failed. However Agbéyomé Kodjo withdrew his candidacy in favor Fabrés back ( but his name still appeared on the ballots ) and the rejected Yamgnane also declared his support for Fabré.

Official results

The provisional results of the Togolese Electoral Commission, Electoral Commission Nationale:

After the election: cleavage of the UFC

After the election, there was an open breach between the factions Fabrés and Olympius within the UFC as the largest opposition party. Olympio had picked up and reached that 7 were provided by 31 ministers of the new government of the UFC regarding the involvement of the UFC negotiations with Gnassingbé. However Fabré described the agreement as contrary to the will of the National Office of the UFC. The intra-party conflict finally ended with the exclusion Olympian out of the party, whose founder and longtime president he was.

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