The Togolese National Assembly adopted a new constitution on Monday (25 March), changing the current presidential system into a parliamentary system and giving Parliament the power to elect the President of the Republic.
The new constitution introduces a renewed position: the president of the Council of Ministers is the one who represents the country in place of the President of the Republic of Togo.
The president of the Republic of Togo will be chosen “without debate” by the Parliament for a single mandate of six years.
It is not known when the text will come into force at this stage.
The constitutional change, proposed by a group of deputies mainly from the Union for the Republic (UNIR, in power), was adopted almost unanimously since the opposition, which had boycotted the last legislative election in 2018 and denounced “irregularities” in the electoral census, is very poorly represented in the National Assembly.
In 2019, deputies had already revised the Constitution to limit presidential mandates to two and reset the counters to zero for President Faure Gnassingbé.
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