Democratic Convention of African Peoples

In the same year some of its members were arrested for handing out anti-government literature; when they were put on trial in 1990, large demonstrations in Lomé led to several deaths.

[3] Its Secretary-General, Léopold Gnininvi, was a candidate in the June 1998 presidential elections, but received less than 1% of the vote and taking fifth place.

The party participated in the October 2007 parliamentary elections,[7] but received just 1.7% of the vote and failed to win a seat.

[8] Gnininvi accepted the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the government formed after the election, and as a result he was criticized by much of the opposition, including some in the CDPA.

[9] Prior to the 2013 parliamentary elections it joined the Rainbow Alliance,[10] which received 11% of the vote, winning six of the 91 seats in the National Assembly.