The new post for the President of Togo can see him to rule all his life

Togos Faure leader Gnassingbe has sworn as “the Chairman of the Council of Ministers” – a new publication that is the highest position in the government’s executive branch and has no official fixed -term restrictions.

This follows the constitutional reform that ended the presidential election and introduced a parliamentary system.

The opposition said the change was in order to allow President Gnassingbe to remain in power for an indefinite period of time.

His family has ruled the country for 58 years – Faure Gnassingbe took in 2005 by his father Gnassingbe Eayadema, who ruled for almost four decades.

This latest change is the result of a new constitution approved by lawmakers last year, designated by critics and opposition figures as an “institutional coup”.

The Gnassingbe government had stopped some of the changes after a huge turn, but moved on with its new role.

The Togo Municipal Elections in July will be the first to the new constitution which replaced the presidential system with parliamentaryS

In theory, the role of the President of the Republic is now only an honorary title, but analysts say that Gnassingbe’s power is more fortified than ever with his new post by the President of the Council.

His party, the Union of the Republic, won a huge majority of last year’s parliamentary elections, taking 108 of 113 seats in the National Assembly.