List of presidents of Togo


This is a list of presidents of Togo since the formation of the post of president in 1960, to the present day.
A total of four people have served as president. Additionally, one person, Faure Gnassingbé, has served on two non-consecutive occasions.
Gnassingbé is the incumbent president, since 4 May 2005.

Description of the office

Election

The president of the Republic is elected by universal, direct and secret suffrage for a mandate of five years.
He is re-eligible.
The election of the president of the Republic takes place by uninominal majority ballot in one round.
The president of the Republic is elected with the majority of the suffrage expressed.
The vote is opened on convocation of the electoral body by decree taken in the Council of Ministers sixty days at least and seventy-five days at most before the expiration of the mandate of the president in office.
No one may be a candidate for the office of the president of the Republic if they:
The president of the Republic enters office within the fifteen days which follow the proclamation of the results of the presidential election.

Oath of office

Before his entry into office, the president of the Republic swears before the Constitutional Court meeting in solemn hearing, in these terms:

Vacancy

In case of a vacancy of the presidency of the Republic by death, resignation or definitive incapacity, the presidential function is exercised provisionally by the president of the National Assembly.
The vacancy is declared by the Constitutional Court referred to by the Government.
The Government convokes the electoral body within the sixty days of the opening of the vacancy for the election of a new president of the Republic.

List of officeholders

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Status

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