The Togolese National Assembly adopted a new Constitution on Monday evening changing the current presidential system into a parliamentary system.

The text voted with 89 votes for, one against and one abstention, marks the transition of the country to the fifth republic upon its promulgation.

It was proposed by deputies from the Union for the Republic (Unir), the ruling party in a parliament where the opposition is very weakly represented following its boycott of the last legislative election in 2018.

Oge Obierika has the details.