Togo opposition snubs poll result

Lome, 07 March-(ANA)-The main opposition party in Togo says it does not recognise the result of the election that has returned President Faure Gnassingbe to power.

The Union of Forces for Change said there was widespread fraud and it planned to challenge the result in the country's Constitutional Court.

The party said its leader, Jean-Pierre Fabre, had won the poll and would form the next government.

Mr Gnassingbe is the son of a late dictator of Togo.

He won 1.2 million votes of two million cast, officials said, considerably more than his rival's tally of 692,584, election officials said.

International observers have praised the relatively peaceful nature of the election. (ANA)

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