# Gnassingbé promulgates Law 2024-005 creating an indefinitely renewable Council presidency Date: 2024 ## The fact On 6 May 2024 President [Faure Gnassingbé](/people/faure-gnassingbe) promulgated Law No. 2024-005 revising the Togolese constitution. The [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) had adopted the text in second reading on 19 April. Direct presidential suffrage ended. Real executive power moved to a President of the Council of Ministers, the majority-party leader, for a six-year term without a two-term cap. ## Context He promulgated after a UNIR-dominated Assembly vote. Opposition called it a life-presidency manoeuvre. 19 April second reading; 6 May promulgation; 3 May 2025 Council appointment. Keep dates. Keep Gnassingbé promulgates Law 2024-005 creating an indefinitely renewable Council presidency on 2024-05-06 separate from neighbouring Gnassingbé instruments. The President of the Council of Ministers of Togo, under the 2024 constitution, holds full executive authority as majority-party leader. Until 3 May 2025 the same person was President of the Republic. He does not write Amnesty briefing notes, Reuters dispatches, or Library of Congress legal monitors. ## Evidence and sources Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor carries the official instrument or communique. France 24 records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity and transfer capacity: a completed constitutional capture of the real executive. ## What is established and what is not Established: He promulgated Law 2024-005 on 6 May 2024 after the 19 April second reading. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The Assembly voted. Sharing an Assembly majority is not a reason to drop the signature.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Gnassingbé promulgates Law 2024-005 creating an indefinitely renewable Council presidency, not a later speech about Gnassingbé promulgates Law 2024-005 creating an indefinitely renewable Council presidency. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Gnassingbé promulgates Law 2024-005 creating an indefinitely renewable Council presidency on 2024-05-06 is not a licence to treat every later Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Gnassingbé promulgates Law 2024-005 creating an indefinitely renewable Council presidency into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He promulgated. The Assembly voted. Sharing an Assembly majority is not a reason to drop the signature. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Faure Gnassingbé: https://factrail.ai/people/faure-gnassingbe ## Drivers - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power - Gnassingbé dynastic rule: https://factrail.ai/drivers/gnassingbe-dynastic-rule ## Sources - https://www.france24.com/fr/afrique/20240419-la-nouvelle-constitution-du-togo-est-adopt%C3%A9e-le-r%C3%A9gime-devient-parlementaire - https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2024-05-16/togo-new-constitution-promulgated/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tg-constitution-2024