Togo

Population Statistics

7,552,318

Total Population

1,132,848

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

01 March 2011

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Code (2000, last amended 2005)

Updated: June 2015

Article 43 states:

The following should not be registered:...(4) Major incompetents.

 

Article 161 states:

In order to declare candidacy, the following things must accompany the declaration:...(7) A medical certificate attesting to physical and mental aptitude, conforming to the established criteria in Article 62 of the Constitution.

 

Article 217 states:

All citizens of both sexes of twenty-five years of age, who enjoy their civil and political rights, who can read and write French and have resided at least six months in the area are eligible.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (2000, last amended 2005)

Constitution of the Fourth Republic of Togo (1992, last amended 2007)

Updated: June 2015

Article 65 states:

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…

 

Article 78 states:

The Prime Minister is the head of the Government…He substitutes for, the case arising, the President of the Republic in the presidency of the Councils provided for in Articles 66 and 72 of this Constitution. He assures the interim of the head of the State in case of incapacity for cause of illness or of absence from the national territory…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of Togo (1992, amended 2007)