constituteproject.org PDF generated: 14 Oct 2013, 20:27 TITLE IV Of the EXECUTIVE POWER SUB TITLE I Of the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC Article 58 The President of the Republic is the Head of the State. He is the guarantor of the national independence and [national] unity, of the territorial integrity, of the respect for the Constitution and of the international treaties and Agreements. He is the guarantor of the continuity of the State and of the institutions of the Republic. Article 59 The President of the Republic is elected by universal, direct and secret suffrage for a mandate of five (05) years. He is reeligible. The President of the Republic remains in office until the effective taking of office of his elected successor. Article 60 The election of the President of the Republic takes place by uninominal majority ballot in one (01) round. The President of the Republic is elected with the majority of the suffrage expressed. Article 61 The vote is opened on convocation of the electoral body by decree taken in the Council of Ministers sixty (60) days at least and seventy-five (75) days at most before the expiration of the mandate of the President in office. Article 62 No one may be a candidate for the office of the President of the Republic if they: • are not exclusively of Togolese nationality by birth; are not thirty-five (35) years of age on the date of the deposit of the candidature; do not enjoy all their civil and political rights; do not present a general state of physical and mental well-being duly declared by three (03) sworn physicians, designated by the Constitutional Court; do not reside in the national territory for at least twelve (12) months. Article 63 The functions of the President of the Republic are incompatible with the exercise of the parliamentary mandate, of any function of professional representation with national character, and of any private or public, civil or military employment, or of any professional activity. The President of the Republic enters office within the fifteen days which follow the proclamation of the results of the presidential election. Togo 1992 (rev. 2007) Page 14