Lome, April 29 (IANS) Togo’s incumbent President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe has been re-elected for another five years in office, preliminary results released on Tuesday showed.
Electoral Commission (CENI), ruling Union for the Republic party candidate Gnassingbe won 58.75 percent of the votes, while opposition Combat for Political Alternative in 2015 (CAP2015) alliance candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre won 34.95 percent, Xinhua news agency reported.
“The national electoral commission states that Gnassingbe has been elected based on provisional results which are subject to confirmation by the constitutional court,” the commission’s head Taffa Tabiou said.
The INEC will soon transmit the provisional results to the constitutional court, which is responsible for examining appeals and electoral disputes before proclaiming the final results.
Gnassingbe came to power in April 2005, following special election after the death of his father Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ran Togo from 1967 till his decease. He was reelected in 2010 with 60.89 percent of the votes.