The Coordination of New Forces (Coordination des Forces Nouvelles) is a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Togo

Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

. Joseph Kokou Koffigoh

Joseph Kokou Koffigoh

Joseph Kokou Koffigoh is a Togolese politician who served as Prime Minister of Togo from 27 August 1991 to 25 April 1994. Elected as Prime Minister by the opposition-dominated National Conference in 1991, Koffigoh was given full executive powers and tasked with overseeing a transition to...

 is the President of the CFN.

The CFN, a coalition led by Koffigoh, who was then transitional Prime Minister, and composed of three political parties—UDR, SOLITO, and ARENA—along with three associations—BASE, CODEPO, UNIFED—opened its constitutive assembly on June 11, 1993 at the Palais des Congrès in Lomé. In the February 1994 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 1994

Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on 6 February 1994, with a second round on 18 March in 24 constituencies. The first multi-party elections since they 1960s, they saw the ruling Rally of the Togolese People finish second behind the Action Committee for Renewal , who together with their...

, the CFN won only one seat, and Koffigoh resigned as Prime Minister in March 1994. The CFN participated in the March 1999 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 1999

Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on 21 March 1999. They were boycotted by the eight opposition parties, who been rebuffed in their insistence that talks following the controversial presidential election the previous year must be completed prior to the parliamentary election...

 but did not win any seats; it chose to boycott the October 2002 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 2002

Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on 27 October 2002. Like the previous elections in 1999, they were boycotted by nine opposition parties , following the replacement of the Independent National Electoral Commission by a seven-magistrate committee and a revision of the Electoral Code...

. It participated in the October 2007 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 2007

A parliamentary election was held in Togo on October 14, 2007 for the 81 seats in the National Assembly. There were over 2,000 candidates, with 32 parties and 41 lists of independent candidates competing. The ruling Rally of the Togolese People was victorious, winning a majority of 50 seats...

, but did not win any seats.