In 2015 ANC leader Jean-Pierre Fabre scored 35% in a presidential election in 2017-18 there were pro-reform protests against the government and the United States criticised the 2020 presidential election (AC Vol 61 No 5 Democratic for a dynast)...
But despite its poor parliamentary showing and the failure of leaders such as Jean-Pierre Fabre to spend much time cultivating grassroots support the opposition does have a base to work from as its performance in the 2019 municipal elections showed...
For Jean-Pierre Fabre who came second in 2015 with a solid 35% but only managed a humbling 4% this time the results confirm an impression of being yesterday's man...
Veteran challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre has been confirmed as the candidate of the Alliance Pour le Changement (ANC)...
The main support for Gnassingbé's principal challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre has come from Lomé while the regime has traditionally cultivated support in the north the home region of the presidential family not least by stirring up locals' wariness of a potential southerner victory (AC Vol 54 No 16 Couldn't save it)...
The CST which includes the Alliance nationale pour le changement of Gilchrist Olympio's former deputy Jean-Pierre Fabre won 19 seats...
Gilchrist’s former lieutenant Jean-Pierre Fabre defected from the party with a swathe of militants and supporters to form the Alliance nationale pour le changement in September...
Gilchrist did not stand in 2010 for health reasons but was already in conflict with his party’s Secretary General and presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre...
The official results gave President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé 61% Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Union des Forces de Changement (UFC) 34% and former transitional Prime Minister Yawovi Agboyibo’s Comité d’Action pour le Renouveau just 3% of the votes cast...
* Jean-Pierre Fabre 57 previously Secretary General of the Union des Forces de Changement became the opposition coalition’s candidate in defiance of the once-charismatic Gilchrist Olympio 73 who wanted to run himself...
Olympio keeps quiet about the internal ructions: National Secretary Jean-Pierre Fabre submitted his own presidential candidacy to the CENI even though the last UFC congress chose Olympio as candidate...