Togo's outgoing President Gnassingbe reelected amid appeals for calm

Togo's outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe was reelected in Thursday's polls amid appeals for calm and continued observation by monitors to follow the post-vote situation in the West African country, which was hit by violence in the 2005 elections.

The 43-year-old incumbent heading the ruling Assembly of Togolese People (RPT) won 1.24 million of the votes counted, or 60. 9 percent of the total, according to the provisional results read Saturday night by Taffa Tabiou, president of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI).

His closest rival Jean-Pierre Fabre, 58, the candidate of the leading opposition United Forces for Change (UFC), attained more than 690,000 votes, or 33.94 percent.

The five other candidates had the rest of the votes, including the country's first female contender Kafui Adjamgbo-Johnson of the Democratic Convention for African People (CDPA), who gained 0. 66 percent of the votes.

The turnout reached 64.68 percent of an estimated 2,040,546 eligible voters.

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