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The consensus: anti-reform shield of Faure Gnassingbé?



The axis of the political reforms claimed in Togo remains the limitation of presidential mandates in accordance with the 1992 Constitution, something that would not satisfy the interests of the party in power as to the fate that this law would reserve to its champion Faure Gnassingbé. "At the level of our party, we never said that we are opposed to these reforms. But, we would just like to see a consensus, "said Christophe Tchao of the UNIR party in an interview with the agency SavoirNews.



Christophe Tchao maintains that through many dialogues, his party and other opposition colleagues were able to agree on certain points, except those of the limitation of presidential mandates and the method of voting. In this regard, the MP persists and signals that the APG, the international community and even ECOWAS, the bishops of Togo in their pastoral letter demanded a single word: The Consensus.

In the absence of a consensus, the limitation of mandates would sound like a sword of Damocles on the head of Faure Gnassingbé. And it is notably on the limitation of the presidential mandate, that there was no consensus between UNIR and ANC. For in the discussions (since there is a general debate, before the particular study of the text), the ANC considered that it is necessary to take into account the mandates already carried out by the Head of State To 2015) reiterated Christophe Tchao.

Curiously, the president of the UNIR parliamentary group still speaks of the impersonal principle of the law: For us, the law must be impersonal, to enable all Togolese, whatever their political edge, to compete once they fulfill the conditions. As a result, the discussions are blocked by Christophe Tchao.

But the opposition maintains its position with the same principle of impersonal law. For us it is a profound disappointment, one must be able to fit in with one's time, and when people think that reforms must be carried out and that the current head of state must be designated as part of these reforms, The law is impersonal, if the law is impersonal, the law is made and interpreted. If people want to have a specific clause concerning the head of state right now, that's where the law is not impersonal a few days ago Professor Komi Wolou of the PSR.

Last year, Komi Wolou also argued that Faure Gnassingbe should be deprived of any republican value to have the courage to be alone, a blockade to the advancement of an entire country.

As a reminder, the revolution of the 1990s made it possible to disentangle the socio-political situation leading to the establishment of a solid constitution in 1992, which contained a firm clause limiting presidential mandates. On the eve of the 2002 legislative elections, there is a great tension between the RPT, now UNIR, on the composition of the electoral commission. The opposition boycotted the elections and the party of the late General Eyadema took over from the hemicycle, unlocked the constitution and erased the principle of limitation of mandates.

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