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Legislative and regional elections will be held “at the latest at the end of the first quarter of 2024” in Togo, the government announced Monday evening following the council of ministers.
“The President of the Republic instructed the government to immediately take all measures to enable the next elections to be organized no later than the end of the first quarter of 2024, taking into account the persistence of security challenges for guarantee everyone – candidates, voters and citizens – the necessary security throughout the national territory,” underlines the press release from the Council of Ministers.
“The external audit, carried out from October 20 to 27, 2023 by a team of experts from the International Organization of La Francophonie, concluded that the 2023 electoral file, containing 4,203,711 registered voters (including 2,262,396 women, i.e. 53.82% and 1,941,315 men, i.e. 46.18%), +is sufficiently reliable to allow the next regional and legislative elections to be held in conditions of confidence+ (…) It now belongs to the Independent National Electoral Commission of propose a timetable for the organization of regional and legislative elections,” the press release specifies.
Opposition leaders have repeatedly demanded in recent months the date and timetable for the elections. The Togolese head of state Faure Gnassingbé announced last December that these elections would be held this year.
Let us specify that the opposition denounced the electoral file audited by the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF). FIN
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