kids encyclopedia robot

List of presidents of Togo facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Quick facts for kids
President of the
Togolese Republic
Presidential Standard of Togo.svg
Presidential Standard
Faure Gnassingbé 2014.png
Incumbent
Faure Gnassingbé

since 4 May 2005
Residence New Presidential Palace, Lomé
Term length 5 years, renewable once.
Formation 27 April 1960
First holder Sylvanus Olympio


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 (not counting one acting president and two interim military officeholders). 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 (05) years.

He is re-eligible.

The election of the president of the Republic takes place by uninominal majority ballot in one (01) 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 (60) days at least and seventy-five (75) 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:

  1. are not exclusively of Togolese nationality by birth;
  2. are not thirty-five (35) years of age on the date of the deposit of the candidature;
  3. do not enjoy all their civil and political rights;
  4. do not present a general state of physical and mental well-being duly declared by three (03) sworn physicians, designated by the Constitutional Court;
  5. do not reside in the national territory for at least twelve (12) months.

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:

Before God and before the Togolese people, sole holders of popular sovereignty, We _____, elected President of the Republic in accordance with the laws of the Republic, solemnly swear.

— to respect and to defend the Constitution that the Togolese people have freely given themselves;

— to loyally fulfill the high functions that the Nation has confided in us.

— to be guided solely by the general interest and the respect of the rights of the human person, to consecrate all our forces to the promotion of development, of the common good, of peace and of national unity;

— to preserve the integrity of the national territory;

— to conduct our self at all times, as a faithful and loyal servant of the People.

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 [the matter] by the Government.

The Government convokes the electoral body within the sixty (60) days of the opening of the vacancy for the election of a new president of the Republic.

Residences

After independence, the President of Togo used the Palace of the Governors as an office and residence. The Palace was formerly used by both German and French colonial administrators. In 1970, President Gnassingbé Eyadéma moved in a new Presidential Palace built near the Palace of the Governors. Another residence used by the Gnassingbé Eyadéma was the Presidential Residence of Lomé II. In 2006, a new Presidential Palace, financed by China, was inaugurated by President Faure Gnassingbé on the outskirts of Lomé.

List of officeholders

Key

Political parties      Committee of Togolese Unity (CUT)      Togolese People's Movement (MPT)      Rally of the Togolese People (RPT)      Union for the Republic (UNIR)

Other factions      Military

Status      Denotes Acting/Interim head of State

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Elected Term of office Political party Prime minister(s)
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Sylvanus Olympio.jpg Sylvanus Olympio
(1902–1963)
1961 27 April 1960 13 January 1963
(assassinated.)
2 years, 261 days CUT Himself
Emmanuel Bodjollé.jpg Emmanuel Bodjollé
(born 1928)
13 January 1963 15 January 1963 2 days Military Position abolished
2 TOGO PRES. NICOLAS GRUNITSKY - CROPPED.jpg Nicolas Grunitzky
(1913–1969)
1963 16 January 1963 13 January 1967
(deposed.)
3 years, 362 days MPT Position abolished
No image.png Kléber Dadjo
(1914–1988/89)
16 January 1967 14 April 1967 91 days Military Position abolished
3 Gnassingbe Eyadema detail2 DF-SC-84-10025.jpg Gnassingbé Eyadéma
(1935–2005)
1972
1979
1986
1993
1998
2003
14 April 1967 5 February 2005
(died in office.)
37 years, 297 days Military / RPT Koffigoh
E. Kodjo
Klutse
Adoboli
A. Kodjo
Sama
4 Faure Gnassingbé 2014.png Faure Gnassingbé
(born 1966)
5 February 2005 25 February 2005
(resigned.)
20 days RPT Sama
No image.png Bonfoh Abass
(1948–2021)
25 February 2005 4 May 2005 68 days RPT Sama
(4) Faure Gnassingbé 2014.png Faure Gnassingbé
(born 1966)
2005
2010
2015
2020
4 May 2005 Incumbent 18 years, 329 days RPT / UNIR Sama
E. Kodjo
Agboyibo
Mally
Houngbo
Ahoomey-Zunu
Klassou
Dogbé

Timeline

Bonfoh AbassFaure GnassingbéGnassingbé EyadémaKléber DadjoNicolas GrunitzkyEmmanuel BodjolléSylvanus Olympio

Latest election

2020 Togolese presidential election

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Anexo:Presidentes de Togo para niños

kids search engine
List of presidents of Togo Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.