The presidential election held in Togo last week seems full of discrepancies. The results were announced yesterday amid speculation that some of the voting boxes had been tampered with by the ruling party, Rally of the Togolese People (RPT).
Late last week, the opposition party – the Union of Forces for Change (UFC) – claimed an early victory stating that their candidate, Jean-Pierre Fabre, had won 75 to 80 percent of the votes. However, President Faure Gnassingbe’ and his ruling party dismissed the claim as “unacceptable” according to the AFP news agency.
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