Dahuku Péré

Maurice Dahuku Péré (born 1953) is a Togolese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Togo from 1994 to 1999. He is the National President of the Democratic Alliance for the Fatherland (the Alliance), an opposition party.

Péré was born in Bohou in Kozah Prefecture. After earning his degree, he was a teacher and then a school headmaster. In the mid-1980s, he studied school administration in Canada; he also studied English there and speaks the language fluently. He subsequently served as Secretary-General of the Ministry of National Education from 1986 to 1990 and became head of the National Movement of Youth, the youth wing of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People (RPT), in 1987. He served in the government as Minister of Labor and the Civil Service from 1990 to 1991, and he was Deputy Secretary-General of the RPT from 1991 to 1994.

In the February 1994 parliamentary election, Péré was elected to the National Assembly from the third constituency of Kozah. He was then elected as the President of the National Assembly on June 23, 1994, receiving a majority of 42 votes, while 36 deputies abstained from the vote. He served as President of the National Assembly until 1999, and he was re-elected to the National Assembly in the March 1999 parliamentary election as the RPT candidate in the Second Constituency of Kozah Prefecture; he was the only candidate and received 100% of the vote. In November 2000, he was given the prestigious title of Commander of the Order of Mono.

On March 24, 2002, Péré, who was a member of the Political Bureau of the RPT, sent a letter to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and the members of the RPT Central Committee in which he called for reforms in the party, saying that it was failing to achieve national reconciliation and economic development and that it was internally intolerant of criticism. Consequently, the RPT Central Committee voted unanimously on August 6, 2002 to expel Péré from the party, along with former Prime Minister Agbéyomé Kodjo, for high treason; he was also expelled from the Order of Mono on August 2.

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