"The intellectual devastates the dictatorship; ignoring democracy ", (Reis Mirdita). Scarcely had the opposition left him a little respite when Faure Gnassingbe, a traveling pigeon, resumed the air for a known destination, Angola. Purpose: to attend the investiture ceremony of Joao Lourenco, successor of Dos Santos in power by the general elections whose MPLA is brilliantly emerged victorious. A succession to power that stands out from the dynastic practice underway in some African states.
It will be fine to criticize him, Faure Gnassingbé is a passionate of the democratic virtues, better still, of electoral democracy. To the double cumulative condition that all this scenario is written and is staged thousands of kilometers or even a few meters from the borders of his country. For whenever it is his people who demand this ideal, history is written in a different way, to the rhythm of tear gas, batons, white bullets, real shots that fall, without discrimination on elderly, youth, children and even animals.
The democratic alternation in the present case is a much more internal alternation to the MPLA and comes down to a change of man at the head of the country. It does not really mean a change of system, vision or governance. As some analysts like to caricature it, it is a "change in continuity". Otherwise, the presidential ambition of UNITA, the "timeless" challenger of the MPLA, would have gone from dream to reality. Never mind !
Faure Gnassingbe obviously has no difficulty in strutting alongside his African peers in a completely different political paradigm where the denial of the presidency for life and the promotion of democratic alternation are written in letters of gold. It is exactly the image of all those self-proclaimed opinion leaders who support its dictatorial regime by all means and who are surprised to freeze electoral democracy in Benin, Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia and so on. How can this be conceived? Embodying one thing and loving the opposite? To embody the hideous face of a dictatorship at home and applaud democracy at the same time?
But the history that is written recently in his country in the grip of a social and political deflagration will not remain a symphony to the taste of unfinished. First by avoiding the trap of a referendum from which the RPT / UNIR will emerge winner whatever the outcome. Then, by reducing his desire to a vague stage of course, to accept the pole of a deceptive dialogue. Obviously, nothing promises a nth dialogue between power and opposition, a brilliant fate.
Let us dare to acknowledge it, the opposition plays one of its ultimate cards. Too naive, too credulous, too divided in the past, it knows deep mutations within it. The Togolese people who support it are determined to obtain a return to the original Constitution of 1992 and the departure of Faure Gnassingbe from power. When and how will Faure Gnassingbe leave power? This is the only real issue that is worth resolving by those who already offer their good offices to the protagonists of the Togolese crisis.
Whether or not Faure Gnassingbe will have to understand that democratic alternation is not for others. Contemplating is good. But making this democratic alternation possible is even better. This is also the cry of the hearts of his fellow citizens.
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