Party for Democracy and Renewal
- Party for Democracy and Renewal
The Party for Democracy and Renewal ("Parti pour la Démocratie et le Renouveau") is a political party in Togo. It was founded on May 1 1991, and its National President is Zarifou Ayéva.[ [http://www.radiolome.tg/template.php?pg=affichenews&idnews=5376 "3E CONGRES STATUTAIRE DU PDR : M AYEVA ZARIFOU RECONDUIT A LA TETE DU PARTI"] , radiolome.tg fr icon.] ]The party has held three statutory congress: in 1991, 1998, and on February 24 2007.Ayéva ran as the PDR candidate in the June 1998 presidential election, taking fourth place with 3.02% of the vote according to official results. [ [http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/898586b1dc7b4043c1256a450044f331/4e94c4d96732fa13c1256af000379051/$FILE/G0143065.pdf "CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 40 OF THE COVENANT: Addendum TOGO"] , United Nations International covenant on civil and political rights, CCPR/C/TGO/2001/3, July 5, 2001.] On August 17 1998, the PDR was the target of two explosions: one damaged its prefectural office in Sokodé and the other damaged the home of a PDR official in Bafilo. On the same day, a residence belonging to Ayéva was ransacked by security forces. [ [http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/3ae6aa5d8.html "U.S. Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices 1998 - Togo"] , UNHCR.org.]
The party boycotted the March 1999 parliamentary election along with the rest of the opposition, ["Togo: Opposition leaders, facilitators meet in Paris", Radio France Internationale (nl.newsbank.com), March 6, 1999.] as well as the October 2002 parliamentary election. ["Political Parties of the World" (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 592.] It participated in the October 2007 parliamentary election, [ [http://www.republicoftogo.com/central.php?o=5&s=83&d=3&i=1137 "Comment sont décomptés les suffrages"] , Republicoftogo.com, October 14, 2007 fr icon.] but did not win any seats.[ [http://www.cenitogo.tg/resultats/Resultats_definitifs_des_elections_legislatives_du_14_octobre_2007_%20proclames_par_la_Cour_Constitutionnelle.do.pdf Text of Constitutional Court decision (final election results)] , October 30, 2007 fr icon.] ]Ayéva has been accused of leading the party in an autocratic manner. The resignations of many leading members of the party, including three—Tchassona-Traoré Mouhamed, Innoussa Nafiou, and Adam Abdou Rahamane—in September 2006, have been attributed to this alleged tendency. [ [http://www.icilome.com/nouvelles/news.asp?id=21&idnews=7462&f= "Zarifou Ayéva : Les raisons de la démission"] , "Le Changement", N° 043, October 5, 2006 (iciLome, October 7, 2006) fr icon.]
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