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Togo’s Cabinet Sets Term Limits

Thursday, September 7, 2017

There will be no more decades long rulers for Togo as the country’s cabinet adopts a draft bill to modify the constitution and reintroduce presidential term limits.

“This bill to modify the constitution concerns specifically the limitations of mandates and voting procedures,” a government statement, referring to article 59 of the constitution, said.

The West African country’s leader, President Faure Gnassingbe has ruled since his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, died in 2005 after 38 years in power.


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