At the end of the day on Friday, Togolese MPs definitely adopted a new constitution that switches the country from a presidential regime to a parliamentary one, ten days before legislative and regional elections.
Adopted on Friday evening by 87 votes out of 87 in the Assembly, the new Constitution switches the country from a presidential regime to a parliamentary regime and marks the disappearance of direct suffrage to elect the President of the Republic, at the same time as it creates the position of “President of the Council of Ministers” which concentrates all powers.
According to the provisions of the new Constitution, the Supreme Court has been emptied of its essence because the new president has been stripped of all prerogatives.
Deputies will elect the head of state “without discussion” and “for a four-year mandate that can be renewed once.”
The actual exercise of power will be in the hands of the president of the Council of Ministers, a kind of prime minister, who will necessarily be the “leader of the majority party” in the National Assembly, according to the new text.
With MAP
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