The political struggle in Togo has reached a decisive turning point for a month. For once, the power now 50 years old is shaken. He wavers. And it takes a little more determination of the people so that its "nightmare" stops.
Bad faith. When in 2005 he had the "national catastrophe", followed by a succession to the monarchical hints, the people said no. And to calm his ardor, several hundred Togolese were killed. The political and civil society actors quickly found themselves at the negotiating table from which the Global Political Agreement (GPA) was issued in 2006. By accepting this discussion, along with a roadmap that clearly reforms to operate so that Togo opens itself to democracy, involuntarily, this legitimate signature the power of the offspring of Gnassingbe Eyadema.
Eleven years later, the famous Comprehensive Political Agreement is still not implemented in its important part. From dilatory to manipulation through the division of opponents, the tenant of Marina's palace and the plundering minority showed their determination not to make the reforms and to drag on to power. The reintroduction of its draft law on the constitutional revision in the National Assembly a few days ago is but another maneuver to fool the opposition and save time.
Awakening.Although opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre said in an interview with Radio France Internationale (Rfi), widely relayed by the newspapers of the place, that he is not breathless in the struggle for the advent of democracy, it must be admitted that the arrival on the political scene of the anthropologist jurist, Tikpi Atchadam, gives a new breath to the struggle.
Eloquent and striking certainly, but without insults or inappropriate remarks, this opponent that the power has not seen come seduced by his speeches and mobilizes several people behind him. A good factor for the opposition to make its union demanded. Done. Now she speaks and acts with a single voice. On 6 and 7 September she demonstrated that "unity is strength". And everything leads us to believe that nothing will be the same as before. The last demonstrations of the opposition were a success. The international press has echoed it. Several personalities have supported the Togolese people who have been demanding alternation for the last fifty years. It has never been so close to its purpose, say warned observers.
Popular mobilization.A regime as brutal as that opposed by the opponents may have a bloody course, it can not resist the people. We have seen it all over history. No force can overcome the people. The Burkinabé have shown it recently. Professor Ayayi Togoata Apedo-Amah sums it up well: "If the people want Faure Eyadema Gnassingbe to leave right away, even if the Constitution says the opposite, he will have to leave the mediocre Burkinabe tyrant Blaise Compaore. No true revolution takes gloves to hunt a tyrant ... "
For now, the regime resists or gives the impression of still controlling the situation. Everything will be played over the next few days. A popular mobilization greater than those of the 6 and 7, and the 20 and 21 will give an idea of what Togo will be in the immediate future. And that is precisely what is at stake. This is why the Fight for Alternative Politics in 2015 (CAP 2015), the Group of Six, the Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), the Pan-African National Party (PNP) the appeal to "Togolese and Togolese from Togo and abroad, human rights organization, press associations, trade unions and associations of civil society, public and private sector workers, artists, pupils, students, market resellers, taximen, zemidjans "in general to claim the 1992 Constitution in its original version as a matter of priority. And thus to free their freedom.
This means that the stakes are high. And the opposition reminded each other to show the regime what they want. The counter-manifestations of RPT / UNIR are only signs of its weakness. The regime still grows. Perhaps he forgets that in a dictatorship everything is fine until the last quarter of an hour.
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