Togo President Faure Gnassingbe wins re-election
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Sunday, March 07, 2010
The current president of Togo has won re-election in a disputed vote.
The election commission said Faure Gnassingbe, son of a late dictator, had beaten opposition challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre. He won 1.2 million votes of two million cast, officials said, considerably more than his rival's tally of 692,584.
Mr Fabre had also claimed victory in the election, alleging irregularities in the vote-counting system. His protest sparked clashes in Togo and led to tightened security. Police used teargas to scatter opposition protesters.
Observers from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc said in a statement that the poll had been "free" but reported "insufficiencies concerning the reliability and authentification of ballots".
An opposition member in CENI, Jean-Claude Codjo, walked out of the agency's meeting Saturday in protest against what he said was fraud.