Koffi Gbékandé Eric Kpadé (born September 23, 1958
at National Assembly website .) is a

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

lese politician of the ruling

Rally of the Togolese People The Rally of the Togolese People (french: Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais, RPT) was the ruling political party in Togo from 1969 to 2012. It was founded by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and headed by his son, President Faure Gnassingbé, after ...

(RPT) who served in the

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from 1999 to 2007. Kpadé was born in

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. He was a customs inspector from 1992 to 1993 before serving as Prefect of Lacs Prefecture from 1993 to 1996 and as Prefect of Tchaoudjo Prefecture from 1996 to 1997. He was elected to the National Assembly in the March 1999 parliamentary election,''Journal Officiel de la Republique Togolaise''
, 20 April 1999, page 26 . as the RPT candidate in the Third Constituency of Lacs Prefecture, winning the seat with 65.25% of the vote. From May 1999 to October 2002, he was Vice-President of the Commission of Finance and Trade in the National Assembly; he was also appointed as a member of the National Commission for the Fight Against Corruption and Economic Sabotage on September 14, 2001. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the October 2002 parliamentary election from the Third Constituency of Lacs Prefecture, and in December 2002 he was elected as the Second Vice-President of the National Assembly. At the RPT's 9th Congress in December 2006, Kpadé was elected as a member of the RPT Central Committee from Lacs Prefecture. He was the first candidate on the RPT's candidate list for Lacs Prefecture in the October 2007 parliamentary election, but did not win a seat, as all three of the available seats in Lacs went to the opposition

Union of the Forces of Change The Union of Forces for Change (french: Union des Forces du Changement) is an opposition political party in Togo. The President of the UFC was Gilchrist Olympio

(UFC).Text of Constitutional Court decision (final election results)
, October 30, 2007 .

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