Solitoki Esso

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Solitoki Magnim Esso is a Togolese politician. He is the Secretary-General of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) and a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Togo.

Esso served as Minister of Communication and Civic Education in the late 1990s.[1][2] On August 27, 2002, the National Assembly voted to replace Dahuku Péré, who had called for reform in the RPT, with Esso in the ECOWAS Parliament.[3] However, the ECOWAS Parliament objected to the National Assembly's move, saying that there was no valid basis for unilaterally replacing Péré with Esso.[4]

Esso was elected to the National Assembly in the October 2002 parliamentary election from the First Constituency of Binah Prefecture.[5] In the National Assembly, he served as President of the Commission of Constitutional Laws and General Administration Legislation.[6] On November 2, 2005, he was elected by the National Assembly as one of Togo's five members of the ECOWAS Parliament, receiving 62 votes out of the 68 deputies present.[7] Esso subsequently became one of the 16 members of the National Commission of the Modernization of Legislation, which was installed on June 23, 2006.[8]

He was elected for a three-year term as Secretary-General of the RPT at the RPT's Ninth Congress in December 2006;[9] he was proposed for that position by President Faure Gnassingbé. At the time of his election, he was technical advisor to the presidential cabinet,[10]

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  1. ^ "Feb 1998 - Government reshuffle", Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume 44, February, 1998 Togo, Page 42054.
  2. ^ "DONNEES GENERALES SUR LE TOGO", afriquepluriel.ruwenzori.net (French).
  3. ^ "Le député Dahuku Péré remplacé au Parlement de la CEDEAO", Panapress (diastode.org), August 27, 2002 (French).
  4. ^ "Le Parlement CEDEAO contre le remplacement d'un député togolais", Panapress (diastode.org), September 4, 2002 (French).
  5. ^ List of deputies by region (lists deputies from the 2002-2007 parliamentary term) (French).
  6. ^ List of commissions in the National Assembly (French).
  7. ^ "Les représentants au Parlement de la CEDEAO et au Conseil Supérieur de la Magistrature élus.", radiolome.tg (French).
  8. ^ "JUSTICE TOGOLAISE SE MODERNISE A GRAND PAS", radiolome.tg (French).
  9. ^ "Togo: Ruling party ends congress, elects new secretary-general", Radio Togo, Lome (nl.newsbank.com), December 19, 2006.
  10. ^ "La politique ne consiste pas à crier", togolumiere.com (French).
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