African Union Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Togo ==== In response to the death of [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]], President of [[Togo]], on 5 February 2005, AU leaders described the appointment of his son, [[Faure Gnassingbé]], to the presidency to have been a [[Coup d'état|military coup]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4240485.stm |title=AU denounces Togo 'military coup' |work=BBC News |date=6 February 2005 |access-date=10 July 2006 |archive-date=15 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115094219/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4240485.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Togo's constitution calls for the speaker of parliament to succeed the president in the event of his death. By law, the parliament speaker must call national elections to choose a new president within sixty days. The AU's protest forced Gnassingbé to hold elections. Under heavy allegations of election fraud, he was officially elected president on 4 May 2005. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page