The Coordination of New Forces, composed of two political parties, held its constitutive assembly in 1993 in Lom, the capital and largest city of Togo, but did not run any candidates in the 1994 parliamentary elections.
The CFN was initially a coalition composed of three political partiesthe Democratic Union for Renewal (UDR), the Socio-Liberal Party of Togo (SOLITO) and the Alliance for the Renewal of the Nation (ARENA)along with three associationsBASE, CODEPO, UNIFED and led by Koffigoh, who was then transitional Prime Minister. 
