Togo ruling party wins legislative vote: electoral commission

Togo's ruling party won a parliamentary majority in April's legislative elections, the country's electoral commission said Saturday, after a divisive constitutional reform critics say allows President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his time in power.
Gnassingbe's Union for the Republic party (UNIR) won 108 of 113 seats in the new assembly, according to provisional results announced by the national electoral commission. The participation rate in the election was 61 percent, according to the electoral commission president who gave the results in a national broadcast.