Kwassi Klutse (29 July 1945 – 19 May 2024) was a Togolese politician who was the prime minister of Togo from 20 August 1996 to 21 May 1999.
Klutse was born in Agbélouvé, French Togoland (now in Zio Prefecture) on 29 July 1945.
[1][3] Subsequently, in by-elections that were held in constituencies where the results of the 1994 parliamentary election had been annulled, the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) of President Gnassingbé Eyadéma won all three constituencies at stake, giving it and its allies a parliamentary majority and enabling it to form a new government without relying on Kodjo's Togolese Union for Democracy (UTD) party.
[1] Klutse was re-elected to the National Assembly in the October 2002 parliamentary election from the First Constituency of Zio Prefecture.
[12] In the October 2007 parliamentary election, Klutse was the second candidate on the RPT's candidate list in Zio Prefecture,[13] but failed to win a seat;[14] all three seats in Zio were won by the opposition Union of the Forces of Change (UFC).