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Local elections coupled with a referendum in April: Faure Gnassingbé prepares his passage in force




Taking the Coalition in the trap of an electoral calendar and hoping to close the page of the challenge launched on August 19, 2017 by the PNP, it is obviously one of the strategies of Faure Gnassingbé to take again the hand. "In accordance with our fundamental law, it is now up to the entire Togolese people, the sole holder of national sovereignty, to decide. In the rule of law that we are building, we can not pretend to substitute more authoritative votes for universal suffrage. (...) In 2018, our citizens will have to decide, by vote, on the main orientations of national life ". So spoke Faure Gnassingbe on January 3, in his address offbeat to the people.


 Hearing the one who seized power in 2005 by force at the cost of a thousand Togolese killed and has since guarded by rigged elections magnify universal suffrage as the only way to take power, it makes you smile; at the limit, it provokes the Togolese. But the main announcement that transpires in this highlighted portion of the sentence is the referendum, without naming it, that Faure Gnassingbé wants to organize by all means. The laboratory of the system is already at work for a beginning of materialization of this announcement. With a nearly monocolored CENI put in motion for a few months, Faure Gnassingbé is determined to make its passage in force, even to plunge the country into an uncertain future.

Reforms at a minimum, a trap for cons Faure Gnassingbe at the Coalition

Putting reforms to a minimum with the tacit support of the international community in a tense climate, this is the new bet of Faure Gnassingbé's regime. To combine the organization of the local elections with the referendum in April is the scenario envisaged by those in power. This is the passage in force of two very controversial projects, namely the law on decentralization and the draft referendum. By considering coupling the local and the referendum, the regime hopes to take the Coalition into a trap that could lead to its dislocation. If all of the Coalition's member parties are opposed to any idea of ​​the referendum, at least publicly, it is not certain that everyone is in favor of a local boycott, even if the law on decentralization is subject to controversy. .

On the side of chancelleries where for years we have been calling for the holding of local elections, we could be less critical of the regime. Putting the pill of the controversial referendum by dressing local, it is the plan of the regime that will be implemented if by then, the pressure of the street does not push Faure Gnassingbé to give up his passage in force

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