Togo’s leader, Faure Gnassingbé, now has a newly created title. He’s transitioned from President to "President of the Council of Ministers," a position that gives him chief executive powers and allows parliament to re-elect him to unlimited 6-year terms.
It bears noting his party, the Union for the Republic, holds 108 of the 115 seats in the National Assembly. It’s the latest in a series of constitutional reforms the party has pushed through – consolidating power in the hands of Gnassingbé, whose family has been in power for almost six decades. Beyond the corridors of power, voices of dissent are struggling to be heard.
00:00 New job for Gnassingbé
02:31 DW speaks with David Dosset, spokesperson for the Civil Society Coalition Togo-Debout
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