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The incumbent president is almost certain to win amid opposition disarray. President Faure Gnassingbé is set for an easy victory against a divided opposition in the March 4th national elections: the main opposition parties plan to boycott the vote This follows their complaints that the electoral register has been inflated in favour of the Rally of the Togolese People ( RPT ), which has dominated politics since 1969. The National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) made matters worse by barring two top opposition leaders— Gilchrist Olympio (for medical reasons) and Franco‐Togolese politician Kofi Yamgnane —from standing for president. Mediation by Burkina Faso ’s President Blaise Compaoré at the end of 2009 to reform the CENI did not help much. The opposition still had a long list of unanswered complaints about inflated registers in the north, verification procedures and a second round of voting. The government’s response was to postpone the polls from February 28th to March 4th. Unconvinced, especially about the register, opposition parties withdrew from CENI, first the Union of Forces for Change ( UFC ) on February 12th, then Yamgnane’s Action Committee for Renewal ( CAR ) and Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo‐Johnson ’s Democratic Convention of African People
Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 2010
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