apr 9, 1961 - Togolese General elections

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for
the new "Assemblée Nationale du Togo"

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ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE DU TOGO (ANT), 1961-1967. The name of the legislative body established in April 1961 to replace the Chambre de Deputes that functioned between 1958 and 1961 and had itself replaced the previous Assemblée Legislative du Togo. The ANT's membership was composed of fifty-one deputies, all supporters of the Comité de l'Unité Togolaise of Sylvanus Olympio as a result of electoral manipulation and the intimidation of opposition parties. The President of the ANT was the old President of the Chambre de Deputes, Jonathan Savi de Tové, with Fio Agbano II as Vice President. The assembly was dissolved in the aftermath of the 1963 coup

Violence: One incident included the arrival of 51 Togolese nationals in Ghana on 16 April 1961. They claimed that they had been attacked in their villages for not voting in the Togolese presidential and parliamentary elections that were held on 9 April 1961

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