Legislative and local elections are scheduled for next year. Is there a technical or political CENI? The power and the opposition are not able to give their violins on the issue.
The legislative elections will take place mid-2018. In the same year will be held the localities whose process initiated several months ago today knows its cruising speed. While the signals suggest that political actors are preparing to take part in these electoral games, it is important to note that they are divided on the nature of the National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to organize them.
Choice between a technical or political CENI
The two elections (legislative and local) are planned for the year 2018. The localities that will lead to decentralization would no longer be a promise by Gascon. They are highly anticipated because they are no longer organized for several decades. Instead of, The authorities have set up special delegations which, on the whole, have shown their limits.
The European Union and the German Cooperation Service (GIZ) have just injected 12.5 billion CFA francs into the Program decentralization and local governance (ProDeGol) launched on Monday 24 July in the Togolese capital. Everything is on. There remains the thorny question of the form we want to give to the CENI.
Indeed, the one that is currently in place and who piloted the last presidential election is political, that is to say that its members come from the parties in power and the opposition. The government is now in favor of a technical CENI, in which some persons recruited for their competence in this field will sit. The idea has been adopted in the Council of Ministers since last December. And, it is said, aims at avoiding the perpetual disputes.
To this end, the Minister of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Local Government, Payadowa Boukpessi, recently invited the opposition parties to gather their proposals for a re-reading of the Electoral Code and the establishment of The CENI technique.
What the opposition wants is the
fight for political alternation in 2015 (CAP 2015) and the Group of Six, two major coalitions of the Togolese opposition, the Political Action Committee (CAR) and other parties That the revision of the Electoral Code and the reorganization of the CENI should be carried out according to the guidelines of the Global Political Agreement (APG) of 20 August 2006.
This agreement, signed following the dialogue between the presidential and opposition movements, prescribes reforms supposed to unravel the Togolese political landerneau very tense after the presidential election of 2005. For his part, Jean-Claude Atsu Homawoo, former Vice President of CENI And advisor to the governing board of the Union of Forces for Change (UFC), an opposition party but co-opting to the government, said that "we have a good CENI". Nevertheless, he adds, "The UFC is in favor of a re-reading of the electoral code leading to another form of CENI" composed of neutral people, independent of the political parties.
Although the regime in place and much of the " Opposition parties do not agree on the nature of the Independent National Electoral Commission called to organize the next legislative and local elections, the components of each camp are still on the ground to sensitize, train and remobilize their militants and sympathizers so that they Ready to go to the polls at the appropriate time.
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