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Togo starts presidential elections
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March 4, 2010, Thursday
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TOGOLESE voters headed to the polling stations today to elect a new president.
The polls were set to open at 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) and to close at 5 pm (1700 GMT).
Xinhua's correspondents reported 200 voters had already lined up in front of the polling center at the General Eyadema Camp primary school, where outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe is expected to cast his vote.
A total of 3,281,146 voters registered out of a population of 6 million are expected to cast their ballots at 5,930 polling centers across the West African country.
There are seven candidates competing for the top post of the West African country, including the 43-year-old president.
Six other candidates in the race are Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Republican Front for Change (FRAC), Yawovi Agboyibo of the Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), Agbeyome Kodjo of the Organization to Build Togo in Unity and Solidarity (OBUTS), Kafui Adjamgbo-Johnson of the Democratic Convention for African People (CDPA), Lawson Nicolas of the Renewal and Redemption Party (PRR) and Kagbara Bassabi of the PanAfrican Democratic Party (PDP).
The polls were set to open at 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) and to close at 5 pm (1700 GMT).
Xinhua's correspondents reported 200 voters had already lined up in front of the polling center at the General Eyadema Camp primary school, where outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe is expected to cast his vote.
A total of 3,281,146 voters registered out of a population of 6 million are expected to cast their ballots at 5,930 polling centers across the West African country.
There are seven candidates competing for the top post of the West African country, including the 43-year-old president.
Six other candidates in the race are Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Republican Front for Change (FRAC), Yawovi Agboyibo of the Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), Agbeyome Kodjo of the Organization to Build Togo in Unity and Solidarity (OBUTS), Kafui Adjamgbo-Johnson of the Democratic Convention for African People (CDPA), Lawson Nicolas of the Renewal and Redemption Party (PRR) and Kagbara Bassabi of the PanAfrican Democratic Party (PDP).
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