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LOME, Togo — Togo’s top opposition candidate was pelted with tear gas for a second time Sunday as he vowed to take to the streets every day in protest of what he says was an election rigged to favor the son of the country’s longtime dictator.
“I am ready to die,” opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre said a few minutes before walking outside the party’s headquarters before a column of anti-riot police. “. . . We cannot let this go on, otherwise they’ll hang on to power for the next 200 years.”
Provisional results released late Saturday show Fabre lost to current President Faure Gnassingbe. A report released over the weekend by the European Union’s observation mission did not find evidence of voter fraud.
