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The Togolese leader, Faure Gnassingbé, is sworn as “President of the Council of Ministers” – a new position that is the highest office in the executive of the government and has no official term limits.
This follows on constitutional reform that the presidential elections ended and introduced a parliamentary system.
The opposition said that the change was to stay in power for an indefinite period of time.
His family ruled the country for 58 years – Faure Gnassingbé took over from his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, in 2005, in 2005, who had ruled almost four decades.
These latest change results from a new constitution that was approved last year by legislators, labeled by critics and opposition figures as an “institutional coup d’état”.
The government of Gnassingbé had paused some of the changes after a huge recoil, but continued with his new role.
Togo’s municipal elections in July will be the first under the new constitution, who has replaced the presidential system with a parliamentary.
In theory, the role of President of the Republic is now only an honorary title, but analysts say that the power of Gnassingbé is more than ever anchored with his new position of council chairman.
His party, the Union for the Republic, won a large majority in last year’s parliamentary elections, with 108 of the 113 seats in the National Assembly.
