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Presidential elections were held in Togo on 3 May 2025 to choose a president for a four-year term. It was the first presidential election since the 2024 constitutional reforms, which abolished direct presidential elections and instead made the President of Togo indirectly elected by the National Assembly to serve a double four-year term. Incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé, who had been in office since May 2005, was ineligible for re-election.
The presidency is a largely ceremonial position, wielding little real power. The president's main role is meeting the leaders of each party following legislative elections to discuss nominations for prime minister, and giving a mandate to try and form a government to the candidate they deem most likely to succeed. The position with the real executive power is the president of the Council of Ministers, a position which was previously called the prime minister. The position was taken by Faure Gnassingbé.
Only one candidate, Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové, a former government minister and opposition to the Gnassingbé regime which has ruled the country since 1967, participated in the election. Savi de Tové, a member of the Pan-African Patriotic Convergence (CPP), was nominated by the ruling party Union for the Republic (UNIR). Since he was the only candidate, Savi de Tové unanimously won the vote and was immediately sworn in as president. Having taking office four days before his 86th birthday, Savi de Tové is the oldest ever president in Togolese history.