Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové

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Jean-Lucien Kwassi Lanyo Savi de Tové (born 7 May 1939[1][2]) is a Togolese politician who served in the government of Togo as Minister of Trade from 2005 to 2007.

Life and career[]

Savi de Tové was born in Lomé[1][2] and is a member of the Ewé ethnic group.[3] Following the January 1967 coup, he was appointed as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 6 February 1967.[4] Kouanvi Tigoue was later appointed to replace Savi de Tové in an interim capacity on 21 November 1974 after the latter when on leave for personal reasons,[5] and Kodjo de Medeiros was appointed to replace Savi de Tové on a permanent basis on 26 March 1975.[6]

Accused of plotting a coup together with various others, including Gilchrist Olympio, a warrant for his arrest was issued on 12 July 1979, and he was imprisoned.[7] He was convicted along with four others in August 1979 and sentenced to ten years in prison.[8]

Following the legalization of multiparty politics, Savi de Tové founded the (PDU).[9][10] Feeling that Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh had grown too cooperative with President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, the Democratic Opposition Collective chose Savi de Tové as Prime Minister[11][12][13] at a meeting in Cotonou, Benin on 22 March 1993.[12][13] The official government in Lomé rejected the opposition's appointment of Savi de Tové.[11][14]

The PDU merged with three other parties in 1999 to create the Patriotic Pan-African Convergence (CPP), with Edem Kodjo as its President;[15] Savi de Tové became the CPP's First Vice-President.[16]

Savi de Tové was appointed to the government as Minister of Trade, Industry, and Crafts on 20 June 2005.[17] At the end of the 2006 Inter-Togolese Dialogue, he signed the resulting political accord on behalf of the CPP on 20 August 2006.[18] He was retained as Minister of Trade, Industry, and Crafts in the government of Prime Minister Yawovi Agboyibo, appointed on 20 September 2006.[19] In the October 2007 parliamentary election, he stood as the first candidate on the CPP's candidate list for Zio Prefecture,[1] but the CPP won no seats in the election.[20] Savi de Tové was dismissed from the government in December 2007.

Savi de Tové was appointed as President of the (CPDC), an official advisory body, on 27 May 2009.[21]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c List of 2007 candidates in Zio Prefecture Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine (in French).
  2. ^ a b Profiles of Togolese government ministers Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, etiame.com (in French).
  3. ^ "QUE LE "MEILLEUR" GAGNE...", Africa Intelligence, 22 July 1993 (in French).
  4. ^ Journal Officiel de la Republique Togolaise, 1 March 1967, page 93 (in French).
  5. ^ Journal Officiel de la Republique Togolaise, 1 February 1975, page 62 (in French).
  6. ^ Journal Officiel de la Republique Togolaise, 16 May 1975, page 227 (in French).
  7. ^ Journal Officiel de la Republique Togolaise, 16 October 1979, page 525 (in French).
  8. ^ Amnesty International Report (1984), Amnesty International, page 106.
  9. ^ Afrique et développement (2000), volume 25, page 145 (in French).
  10. ^ L'afrique politique 1997: revendications populaires et recompositions politiques (1997), KARTHALA Editions, page 267 (in French).
  11. ^ a b West Africa, Issues 4180-4193, page 499.
  12. ^ a b "AFRICA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS"[permanent dead link], Reuters, 23 March 1993.
  13. ^ a b Africa Report (1993), volume 38, page 9.
  14. ^ Africa Contemporary Record (2000), volume 24, page 188 (in French).
  15. ^ Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 591.
  16. ^ "Togo/dialogue: les divergences refont surface avec la reprise des travaux", iciLome.com, 2 June 2006 (in French).
  17. ^ "Togo: Liste des membres du nouveau gouvernement", Xinhua, 21 June 2005 (in French).
  18. ^ Text of the Global Political Accord[permanent dead link], cenitogo.tg (in French).
  19. ^ "Le nouveau gouvernement de Maître Yawovi Agboyibo" Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, Togoforum.com, 20 September 2006 (in French).
  20. ^ Text of Constitutional Court decision (final election results) Archived 2007-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, 30 October 2007 (in French).
  21. ^ "Jean-Lucien Sanvi De Tové confiant et serein"[permanent dead link], Republicoftogo.com, 29 May 2009 (in French).
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