Headlines: Faure Gnassingbé rempile

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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A 4th term for the Togolese president ... With this figure on the front page of all the Togolese press this morning: 72.36% in the first round. This is the canon score obtained by Faure Gnassingbé. A knockout knock, as we say in West Africa.

" This victory was expected, " exclaims the official Republic of Togo website . “ The Togolese have turned away from the political thing for several years. They now vote for whoever can bring them a better life, work, better wages, good hospitals and quality education for their children. The bulletin slipped into the ballot box is the synthesis of all these expectations. "

République Togo also notes the second place of Agbéyomé Kodjo (18.37%), as well as the low score of Jean-Pierre Fabre (of the ANC) who obtains only 4.35% of the votes.

Republic of Togo, which does not hesitate to scratch it in passing: “ very bad news for Mr. Fabre, whose political career is no doubt the end of it. The traditional voters of the opposition wanted to sanction political choices deemed hazardous by the leader of the ANC. Wear has certainly worked against him. "

Kodjo challenges

For his part, the one who is now seen as N ° 1 opponent, Agbéyomé Kodjo, refutes this reappointment of the outgoing president.

For him, no doubt, he is the winner of this poll which was rigged and he poses as president-elect, as noted in particular by the site Togo Breaking News: before the announcement of the CENI, " Agbéyomé Kodjo s 'is declared the winner of the election with a score between 57% and 61%. He asked Faure Gnassingbé to take measures for a peaceful transfer of power. The former Prime Minister invites the forces to celebrate the alternation and asks the international community to help make this ideal a reality in Togo. Dr. Kodjo also announced the upcoming formation of an inclusive government. "

A more open political game ?

For the moment, little or no reaction in the sub-region, the announcement of the re-election of Faure Gnassingbé having fallen late at night.

The special envoy to Lomé of the Burkina Faso site WakatSéra was able to publish his paper in time: he believes that this presidential election marks a democratic advance for Togo: " this election is a first in the political history of the country ," he writes. First of all thanks to the pressure from opponents and civil society on the power in place to obtain the current constitutional reforms. Another advance: “ Togolese in the diaspora have enjoyed their right to vote for the first time. It is still the first time that the ballot, which was uninominal, therefore padlocked in one round, passes to two rounds. And finally, this is not the least of the Togolese people's stage victories, the presidential terms are now limited to two. If we should not be satisfied with these advances, the fact remains that they open up the political game a little more , says WakatSéra , in a Togo that has long been closed to reforms that bring democracy. Because it is time that Faure Gnassingbé use this victory to offer all Togolese a daily life of well-being and especially to set up, at the time indicated by the Constitution, the conditions favorable to the alternation, one of the fundamental pillars of democracy. "

A boulevard ?

The country , still in Burkina , is sharper ... " Until 2025 at least, Faure Gnassingbé, who heads the only country in West Africa which has never known a democratic alternation, will continue to figure exceptional among its peers in the sub-region, with the blessing and congratulations of the former French colonial power, notes the Burkinabé daily, which has many interests in this country which hopes to become a regional hub with its rate of 5% attractive growth, the absence of terrorist groups active on its territory, its new international airport and its deep-water port. Enormous assets which could open a boulevard to this man who secretly nourishes the ambition to do better than his father who reigned without sharing over Togo 38 years during, because , still points The Country, even if the current Constitution limits his mandates two, nothing indicates that with the National Assembly currently largely dominated by his party, the calendar of constitutional adjustments is completely buckled for the years to come. "

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