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The Rally of the Togolese People ( French : Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais , RPT ) was the ruling political party in Togo from 1969 to 2012. It was founded by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and headed by his son, President Faure Gnassingbé , after the former's death in 2005. Faure Gnassingbé replaced the RPT with a new ruling party, the Union for the Republic (UNIR), in April 2012, dissolving the RPT.

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28-534: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rally of the Togolese People The RPT was founded in late 1969, under President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . The party's first Secretary-General was Edem Kodjo . It was the only legally permitted party in the country, a role further entrenched in a new constitution adopted in the 1979 referendum when all other parties were banned. The president of

42-456: The 2020 Summer Paralympics Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title RPT . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RPT&oldid=1239115619 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

56-816: The National Commission for the Fight Against Corruption and Economic Sabotage on September 14, 2001. On August 27, 2002, the National Assembly voted to replace Dahuku Péré , who had called for reform in the RPT, with Esso in the ECOWAS Parliament . However, the ECOWAS Parliament objected to the National Assembly's move, saying that there was no valid basis for unilaterally replacing Péré with Esso. Esso

70-642: The Ninth Ordinary Congress. In the 31-member government appointed by President Gnassingbé on 28 May 2010, Esso was brought back into the government as Minister of State for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform; he became the second ranking member of the government, after Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo . After two years in that post, Esso was instead appointed as Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education in August 2012. He

84-674: The President of the National Assembly, during his visit to the Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments in September 2005. On November 2, 2005, Esso was elected by the National Assembly as one of Togo's five members of the ECOWAS Parliament, receiving 62 votes from the 68 deputies present. Esso subsequently became one of the 16 members of the National Commission of the Modernization of Legislation, which

98-608: The crisis. In the parliamentary election held on 27 October 2002, the party won 72 out of 81 seats in the National Assembly of Togo . Following the death of Eyadéma in February 2005, the RPT designated his son, Faure Gnassingbé, as the party's leader and its candidate in the presidential election of 24 April 2005, in which he won 60.2% of the vote. The RPT's 9th Congress was held in December 2006, and Solitoki Esso

112-455: The government as Minister of Communication and Culture during the 1990s; later, he was Minister of State for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform from May 2010 to August 2012 and Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education from August 2012 to September 2013. He was elected as Secretary-General of the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) in December 2006. On September 11, 1979, Esso

126-702: The party was banned in November 1991 by the High Council of the Republic (the transitional parliament), a political crisis occurred in which soldiers loyal to Eyadéma, who demanded that the ban on the RPT be lifted, captured Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh in December. Koffigoh was released after agreeing to the soldiers' demands and forming a new government that gave a RPT member secondary responsibility for military affairs (while Koffigoh himself remained Defense Minister). Eyadéma remained President throughout

140-494: The party was elected to a seven-year term as president of the republic, and confirmed in office by a plebiscite. President of Togo Government After 22 years of single-party rule by the RPT, a National Conference was held from July to August of 1991, establishing a transitional government that reinstituted multiparty elections. The RPT was legally dissolved by the National Conference on 27 August 1991. After

154-520: Was appointed as Director of Television by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . He was elected to the National Assembly in the March 1985 parliamentary election , winning the seat for Binah Nord constituency in Binah Prefecture with 62.24% of the vote. Esso was appointed to the government as Minister of Communication and Culture on November 29, 1995. Later, he was appointed as vice-president of

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168-532: Was elected as the party's Secretary-General for a three-year term. Previous Secretaries-General include Koffi Sama , elected in late 2000, and Dama Dramani , elected in late 2003. The RPT won 50 out of 81 National Assembly seats in the October 2007 parliamentary election . Solitoki Esso Solitoki Magnim Esso is a Togolese politician who has served in the government of Togo as Minister of State for Presidential Affairs since September 2013. He served in

182-700: Was elected to the National Assembly in the October 2002 parliamentary election from the First Constituency of Binah Prefecture . In the National Assembly, he served as President of the Commission of Constitutional Laws and General Administration Legislation. When the Pan-African Parliament began meeting in March 2004, Esso became one of Togo's five members. Esso was one of three parliamentary deputies who accompanied Bonfoh Abbas ,

196-635: Was installed on June 23, 2006. At the RPT's Ninth Ordinary Congress, Esso was elected as Secretary-General of the RPT for a three-year term on December 18, 2006. He was proposed for that position by President Faure Gnassingbé . At the time of Esso's election, he was Technical Advisor to the Presidency. Esso is a member of the RPT Political Bureau and a member of the RPT Central Committee from Binah Prefecture as of

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