Togo's republican system places day-to-day executive leadership in the hands of the government, with a separate head of state performing constitutional duties. Faure Gnassingbé serves as President of the Council of Ministers of Togo and leads the national government.
Togo now operates under the parliamentary system of the Fifth Republic created by the 2024 constitutional reform and brought into effect in 2025. The president of the republic is a largely ceremonial head of state chosen indirectly, while the president of the Council of Ministers is the principal executive authority and is tied to the parliamentary majority. The government is organized under this new division of executive roles.
Legislative authority is bicameral, with a National Assembly and a Senate. Parliament passes laws and participates directly in the structure of executive power because the leadership of the majority determines the president of the Council of Ministers. The constitutional reform therefore shifted Togo away from its former presidential model toward a parliamentary one.
Togo remains a unitary state. Although the formal institutional design changed substantially, the governing political movement that dominated the previous system continues to hold the central position in national politics.
