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Faure Gnassingbé won re-election in the March 2010 presidential election, taking 61 % of the vote against Jean-Pierre Fabre from the UFC, who had been backed by an opposition coalition called FRAC ( Republican Front for Change ).
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Faure and Gnassingbé
In 2005, his son Faure Gnassingbé was elected president.
The military's immediate but short-lived installation of his son, Faure Gnassingbé, as president provoked widespread international condemnation, except from France.
Faure Gnassingbé stood down and called elections which he won two months later.
With an engineered power vacuum, the Parliament voted to remove the constitutional clause that would have required an election within sixty days, and declared that Eyadema's son, Faure Gnassingbé, would inherit the presidency and hold office for the rest of his father's term.
In response, Faure Gnassingbé agreed to hold elections and on 25 February, Gnassingbé resigned as president, but soon afterward accepted the nomination to run for the office in April.
On 3 May 2005, Faure Gnassingbé was sworn in as the new president, after winning 60 % of the vote, according to official results.
Shortly afterwards, his son Faure Gnassingbé was named by Togo's military as the country's leader, raising numerous eyebrows.
African Union leaders described the naming of Faure Gnassingbé as a military coup.
| Faure Gnassingbé
* June 6 – Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo
As Eyadéma's son Faure Gnassingbé was 35, many observers assumed that he was opening the way for a dynastic succession should he die suddenly.
Zakary Nandja, chief of the Togolese army, pronounced his son Faure Gnassingbé as the new President of Togo.
Other organizations, such as the International Community and ECOWAS, also did not approve the designation of Faure Gnassingbé as President.
Under heavy pressure from ECOWAS and the international community, Faure Gnassingbé stepped down on February 25 and was replaced by Bonfoh Abass, the first deputy parliament speaker, until after the presidential elections on April 24, 2005, when Faure Gnassingbé was elected president with 60 % of the vote.
After serving as Prime Minister, Sama became a Special Advisor to President Faure Gnassingbé, with the rank of Minister ; he remains in that post as of 2008.
* Led by President Faure Gnassingbé, in office since 5 February 2005
* Presidential election, 2005: Faure Gnassingbé ( RPT ) 60. 2 %
* Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo
Togo is now led by Eyadema's son, Faure Gnassingbé.
* 24 April-Presidential elections in Togo return Faure Gnassingbe to power two months after he was installed by the military following the death of his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
Faure and March
On 5 March 1938, Faure rode a faired Velocar 50. 537 kilometers in an hour and became the first cyclist to travel more than 50 kilometers in an hour without the aid of a pace vehicle.
In July 1961, two years after the 1959 Revolution, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations ( ORI ) was formed by the merger of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, the Popular Socialist Party led by Blas Roca and the Revolutionary Directory March 13 led by Faure Chomón.
Faure and presidential
* Togolese presidential election, 2005: Three killed, amid claims of fraud in tense election in Togo to choose the successor to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, hardline ruler for 38 years, from amongst Faure Gnassingbé, the 39-year-old son of the late leader, and several challengers led by Emmanuel Bob-Akitani.
* Faure Gnassingbé wins the Togolese presidential election with more than 60 % of the votes.
* Faure Gnassingbé wins the Togolese presidential election with more than 60 % of the votes.
Faure and election
* In Togo, opposition resistance against election victory of Faure Gnassingbé escalates into violence.
He was again declared runner-up in the election, behind Eyadéma's son, Faure Gnassingbé, amidst widespread allegations of seized ballot boxes and other electoral fraud.
Faure and taking
In the interval between the taking of these two votes an important event had occurred — the sudden death of the President, Félix Faure ( 16 February ).
Faure and 61
He gained his education at the Lycee Felix Faure in Nice ( 1948 – 52 ), the École Supérieure d ' Agriculture in Tunis and the University of Paris ( 1958 – 61 ).
Faure and %
officially received 38. 1 % of the vote on the latter occasion, losing to Faure Gnassingbé, son of the deceased Eyadéma, amidst opposition claims of a rigged vote.
Faure and against
In 1894 he returned to political life as senator for the department of the Loire, and next year stood for the presidency of the republic against Félix Faure and Henri Brisson, being supported by the Conservatives, who were soon to be his bitter enemies.
His reputation as an orator of great force and lucidity of exposition and as a safe and honest statesman procured for him in 1896 the presidency of the Senate, and in February 1899 he was chosen president of the republic in succession to Félix Faure by 483 votes as against 279 recorded by Jules Méline, his only serious competitor.
In 1882 Déroulède, along with the historian Henri Martin and Félix Faure, founded the Ligue des patriotes, to promote France's " revanche " against Germany.
Bonnet, together with his allies in the " peace lobby " both within and without the government such as Anatole de Monzie, Jean Mistler, Marcel Déat, Paul Faure, Paul Baudoin, Pierre Laval, René Belin, Adrien Marquet, and Gaston Bergery, all spent 1 – 3 September lobbying the Daladier government, the Senate and the Chamber against going to war with Germany.
He abandoned politics after the reforms instituted by Edgar Faure after the 1968 revolt, when he realised that university life was running against the tradition he had always upheld.
Faure and Jean-Pierre
Notable artists in this vein include James Faure Walker, Manfred Mohr, Ronald Davis, Joseph Nechvatal, Matthias Groebel, George Grie, Olga Kisseleva, John Lansdown, Perry Welman, and Jean-Pierre Hébert.
Faure and Fabre
In the Occitan and Arpitan extension area, the variation is Fabre, Favre, Faure, Favret, Favrette or Dufaure and in Corsica Fabri ( cf.
Faure and from
Rev Faure continued as minister until 1897 when he was succeeded by Rev Ramsden Balmforth, from England.
A couple of primitive cylinder recordings dating from about 1900 have been attributed by collectors to the dominant French baritone of the 1860s and 1870s, Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 1830 – 1914 ), the creator of Posa in Verdi's original French-language version of Don Carlos.
Associated with the rise of the baritone in the 19th century, Martin was well known for his fondness for falsetto singing, and the designation ' Baryton Martin ' has been used ( Faure, 1886 ) to separate his voice from the ' Verdi Baritone ', which carried the chest register further into the upper range.
In February 1896, Rambouillet received a visit from President Félix Faure who then decided to spend his summers there with his family.
Félix François Faure ( 30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899 ) was President of France from 1895 until his death.
Faure died suddenly from apoplexy on 16 February 1899, at a critical juncture while engaged in sexual activities in his office with 30-year-old Marguerite Steinheil.
It has been widely reported that Felix Faure had his fatal seizure while Steinheil was fellating him, but the exact nature of their sexual intercourse is in fact unknown and such reports may have stemmed from various jeux de mots ( puns ) made up afterward by his political opponents.
The head of the college, the abbé Antoine Faure, who was from the same part of the country as himself, befriended the lad, and continued to do so for many years after he had finished his course, finding him pupils and ultimately obtaining for him the post of tutor to the young duke of Chartres, afterwards the regent Duke of Orléans.
The station is named after the Avenue Félix-Faure, which is named after Félix Faure, President from 1895 to 1899.
In her Mémoires, she records how she and her spouse received a mysterious German guest, who bought back from them each of the pearls of a collar given to her by Faure ( le collier présidentiel, as it became known in the press ) and who reclaimed a manuscript of the president's memoires which he had entrusted to Marguerite.
Faure is a French family name meaning blacksmith, from Latin faber.
Rabbitt were a South African rock band formed in 1972, evolving from a band called The Conglomeration, consisting of members Trevor Rabin, Duncan Faure, Ronnie Robot, and Neil Cloud.
" Dingley's Bookshop " ( Faure ) ( 2. 10 ) theme from a TV series
" Getting Through to You " ( Faure ) ( 4: 07 ) — from the album Rock Rabbitt
" Morning Light " ( Faure / Rabin ) ( 3: 12 ) — from the EP Morning Light ( 1977 )
" Lonely Loner Too " ( Faure ) ( 3: 34 ) — from the album A Croak and a Grunt in the Night < BR >
" Dingley's Bookshop " ( Faure ) ( 2: 11 ) — from the album A Croak and a Grunt in the Night < BR >
" Morning Light " ( Faure / Rabin ) ( 3: 12 ) — from the EP single Morning Light ( 1977 )< BR >
" I Was Eleven " ( Faure ), listed on cover as When I Was Eleven ( 3: 10 ) — from the EP single 1972-1978 ( 1978 )< BR >
" Getting Through to You " ( Faure ) ( 4: 07 ) — from the album Rock Rabbitt < BR >
" A Love You Song " ( Faure ) ( 1: 43 ) — from the EP single Morning Light ( 1977 )
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