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2025 Togolese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Togo on 3 May 2025 to choose a president for a four-year term. It was the first presidential election since the 2024 constitutional reforms, which abolished direct presidential elections and instead made the President of Togo indirectly elected by the National Assembly to serve a double four-year term. Incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé, who had been in office since May 2005, was ineligible for re-election. The presidency is a largely ceremonial position, wielding little real power. The president's main role is meeting the leaders of each party following legislative elections to discuss nominations for prime minister, and giving a mandate to try and form a government to the candidate they deem most likely to succeed. The position with the real executive power is the president of the Council of Ministers, a position which was previously called the prime minister. The position was taken by Faure Gnassingbé. Only one candidate, Jean-Lucien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Lucien Savi De Tové
Jean-Lucien Kwassi Lanyo Savi de Tové (born 7 May 1939) is a Togolese politician who has served as the fifth president of Togo since 2025. He was previously the Minister of Trade, Industry and Handicrafts in the governments of Edem Kodjo and Yawovi Agboyibo from 2005 to 2007. A former opposition leader, Savi de Tové was imprisoned several times during the presidency of Gnassingbé Eyadéma before joining the government. In the 2007 parliamentary election, he was a candidate for the National Assembly, but then lost. In December of that year, he was dismissed from the government. In May 2025, Savi de Tové was unanimously elected the president by the National Assembly following a 2024 constitutional reform which changed the way the president is elected from direct popular vote to being indirectly elected by the National Assembly. Savi de Tové took office succeeding Faure Gnassingbé, the son of Eyadéma, becoming the first officeholder of the now ceremonial role as most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indirect Election
An indirect election or ''hierarchical voting,'' is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office ( direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties. It is one of the oldest forms of elections and is used by many countries for heads of state (such as presidents), cabinets, heads of government (such as prime ministers), and/or upper houses. It is also used for some supranational legislatures. Positions that are indirectly elected may be chosen by a permanent body (such as a parliament) or by a special body convened solely for that purpose (such as an electoral college). In nearly all cases the body that controls the federal executive branch (such as a cabinet) is elected indirectly. This includes the cabinets of most parliamentary systems; members of the public elect the parliamentarians, who then elect the cabinet. Upper houses, especially in federal republics, are often indirectly elected, either ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidential Elections In Togo
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2025 In Togo
Events in the year 2025 in Togo. Incumbents * President: Faure Gnassingbé (until 3 May); Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové (since 3 May) * Prime Minister: Victoire Tomegah Dogbé (office abolished 3 May) * President of the Council of Ministers: Faure Gnassingbé (office established 3 May) Events February * 15 February – : The ruling Union for the Republic wins 34 of 41 seats in the newly established . April * 4 April – The Togo International Festival of Fashion is held in Lomé. May * 3 May – President Faure Gnassingbé is appointed as President of the Council of Ministers by Parliament. June * 4 June – US President Donald Trump issues a proclamation imposing partial restrictions on Togolese nationals travelling to the United States. * 16 June – The High Authority for Audiovisual Communication issues a three-month suspension of operations in Togo against Radio France Internationale and France 24, citing alleged bias in reporting. * 29 June – At least seven people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Elections In Africa
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Togo
Politics of Togo takes place in a framework of a parliamentary republic, whereby the president is the head of state and the prime minister is head of government, who is appointed by the president with the parliament's approval. Executive power is exercised by the prime minister while the role of the president is largely ceremonial. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. After independence, the party system was dominated first by the authoritarian Rally for the Togolese People, and later by its successor party, Union for the Republic. Eyadéma presidency In the early 1990s, the international community began putting pressure on authoritarian president Gnassingbé Eyadéma to democratize, a notion he strongly resisted. Pro-democracy activists - mainly southern Mina and Ewé - were met with armed troops, killing scores of protesters in several clashes. The people of France and Togo were furious, and under their backlash Eyadéma gave in. He was summaril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The National Assembly (Togo)
In Togo, the president of the National Assembly leads and represents the Togolese National Assembly. The current president of the National Assembly has been Kodjo Adedze since 14 June 2024. Role In Togo, the president of the National Assembly has a primary role in organizing and conducting debates within the Assembly. They are elected for five years by the deputies in a secret ballot with two rounds; in the event of a tie, the oldest candidate is elected. After the election, the president convenes parliamentary sessions, sets the agenda, decides on the admissibility of bills, amendments, and requests for the creation of committees. Moreover, the president opens and closes parliamentary sessions, grants and withdraws speaking rights among speakers, and can decide on disciplinary measures against certain parliamentarians. The president of the Assembly is also responsible for security within the Assembly, which means they can call in law enforcement within the Parliament in cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate (Togo)
The Senate () is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Togolese Parliament, the other being the National Assembly. The resolution to establish the Senate was adopted by the National Assembly of Togo dominated by UNIR party on 8 May 2019. The first Senate session took place on 6 March 2025 in Palais des Congrès in Lomé. The Senate has 61 members. One-third of the members are named by the President of the Council of Ministers of Togo and the remainder two-thirds are elected indirectly by territories, ensuring additional representation for supporters of the president and diluting the representation of his opponents. The members serve a six-year term. History The 1992 constitution of Togo called for a Senate, which however was never formed until 2025. Presidents See also *Politics of Togo References Politics of Togo Government of Togo Togo Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral College
An electoral college is a body whose task is to elect a candidate to a particular office. It is mostly used in the political context for a constitutional body that appoints the head of state or government, and sometimes the upper parliamentary chamber, in a democracy. Its members, called ''electors'', are either elected by the people for this purpose (making the whole process an indirect election) or by certain subregional entities or social organizations. If a constituent body that is not only summoned for this particular task, like a parliament, elects or appoints certain officials, it is not referred to as "electoral college" (see e.g. parliamentary system). Also, other appointing bodies (like committees appointing judges, as in Canada or Germany) normally do not fall into this definition. Examples United States The United States Electoral College is the only remaining electoral college in democracies where an executive president (a head of state who is also head of go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Presidents Of Togo
The president of the Togolese Republic () is the head of state of the Togolese Republic. The president is mostly, though not entirely, ceremonial as the actual executive power lies in the president of the Council of Ministers, a powerful role that is the head of the cabinet. The current president is Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové, who took office on 3 May 2025. He is also the oldest president ever in Togolese history. For most of Togo's independence, the country had a presidential system in which the president was not only the head of state, but also the head of government and that the role had much power over both domestic and foreign policy. However, constitutional reforms adopted in April 2024 reduced the president's powers, made the role more ceremonial, and moved the country towards a more parliamentary system. While the role became ceremonial, the president is still the commander-in-chief of the Togolese Armed Forces and still has the power to appoint the president of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For The Republic (Togo)
The Union for the Republic (UNIR; ) is the ruling political party in Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le .... The party emerged from the former Rally of the Togolese People (RPT), which dissolved in 2012. Election results Presidential elections National Assembly elections Senate elections References External links * Political parties in Togo Political parties established in 2012 2012 establishments in Togo {{Togo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan-African Patriotic Convergence
The Pan-African Patriotic Convergence () is a political party in Togo. Former Prime Minister Edem Kodjo is the President of the CPP as of 2007. The CPP was created in August 1999"World Briefing: Togo: Opposition Alliance" ''The New York Times'', August 17, 1999. through the merger of four parties:''Political Parties of the World'' (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 591. the Togolese Union for Democracy (UTD), led by Kodjo, the Party of Action for Democracy (PAD), led by Francis Ekoh, the Party of Democrats for Unity (PDU), and the Union for Democracy and Solidarity (UDS), led by Antoine Foly. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
