The Comprehensive Political Accord (APG) follow-up Committee in Togo has postponed the parliamentary polls initially billed for 24 June 2007
Posted by African Press International on May 16, 2007
Lome (Togo) The Comprehensive Political Accord (APG) follow-up Committee in Togo has postponed the parliamentary polls initially billed for 24 June 2007 to 5 August in response to a recommendation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI).
Speaking at the end of the Ouagadougou meeting on the electoral process in Togo, Co-operation Minister, Gilbert Bawara said everything had been done to hold the elections on time.
The Committee has however requested that the Togolese government produce a report during it June meeting, on the items provided for in the APG particularly the delivery of identification cards, the reform of the Constitutional Court, impunity as well as the already started refugee repatriation.
The Committee urged Togo’s technical and financial partners to quickly provide the needed technical, financial and logistic means to the CENI in order to comply with the electoral calendar.
Political parties and the civil society have been invited to respect the good conduct code in keeping with the comprehensive political Accord signed on 20 August 2006 in Lome.
The follow-up Committee, chaired by Blaise Compaoré and grouping a representative of each party signatory to the Accord, is a body set up to ensure the implementation of the different clauses of the Accord.
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