Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ ɲasɛ̃ɡbe]; born 6 June 1966[1]) is a Togolese politician who has been the fourth president of Togo since 2005.

[2] Doubts regarding the constitutional legitimacy of the succession led to heavy regional pressure being placed on Gnassingbé, and he subsequently resigned on 25 February.

In the April 2015 presidential election, Gnassingbé won a third term, defeating his main challenger, Jean-Pierre Fabre, by a margin of about 59% to 35%, according to official results.

[7] Gnassingbé received his secondary education in Lomé before studying in Paris at the Université Paris-Dauphine, where he received a degree in financial business management;[8] he subsequently obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from The George Washington University in the United States.

[citation needed] On July 29, 2003, he was appointed as Minister of Equipment, Mines, Posts, and Telecommunications,[8][10][11] serving in that position until becoming president in February 2005.

[citation needed] The parliament also eliminated a constitutional requirement that elections be held within 60 days of the president's death, enabling the younger Gnassingbé to rule until the expiration of his father's term in 2008.

[14] Under pressure from others in the region, and particularly Nigeria, later in February 2005, Gnassingbé announced that new elections would be held within 60 days, but said that he would remain in office in the meantime.

However, on February 21, the National Assembly reversed some of the constitutional changes that it had made so as to allow Gnassingbé to assume power, although it did not instruct him to resign.

Mass protests by the coalition of opposition parties led to the killing of over 1,000 citizens by security forces.

[17] Since improving the Economy of Togo, he has mobilized 12 billion 860 million CFA francs in order for construction of National No.

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