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Togo's Faure Gnassingbe gets nod for third term

Xinhua, May 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Togo's outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe won the April 25 ballot with 58.77 percent of votes, coming ahead of four opposition contestants, for a third five-year term in office, according to the final results released on Sunday by the Constitutional Court.

His main challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre, candidate of the coalition Combat for Political Change (CAP-2015) came second with 35.19 percent of votes cast, against 4.03 percent for Aime Gogue, 1.03 percent for Gerry Taama and 0.9 percent for Mouhamed Traore.

According to the 60 article of the constitution, the presidential election takes place by a one-ballot uninominal majority poll and the president of the republic is elected by a majority of the votes cast.

"Having gained the greatest number of votes, Faure Gnassingbe is to be declared elected president of the republic," Abdou Assouma, Togo's president of the Constitutional Court said before proclaiming the election of the outgoing president for another five year term office.

All defeated presidential election candidates raised concerns about the April 25 ballot but none filed appeal to the Constitution court.

Since some days, Jean-Pierre Fabre has been denouncing serious deficiencies and gerrymandering, but abstained from lodging appeal arguing that he has "no confidence" in the Constitutional court.

About the concerns raised, Abdou Assouma said that the constitutional Court noticed wrong counting of votes.

He went on to explain that some votes cast were not registered whereas others were registered twice at the level of some local independent electoral commission (CELI).

Faure Gnassingbe came to power in April 2005, following a special election after the death of his father General Gnassingbe Eyadèma who ruled Togo from 1967 till he deceased on Feb. 5, 2005. He won the election with 60.15 percent of votes cast.

Five years later, at the March 2010 presidential election, Faure was reelected with 60.89 percent of votes cast against 33.94 percent for Jean-Pierre Fabre. Endi