Following the 2007 election, Mally was appointed as prime minister by President
Faure Gnassingbé on December 3, 2007. Mally took office in a ceremony on December 6, and his government was named on December 13. It included 21 ministers (aside from Mally himself) and was primarily composed of members of the RPT; the two main opposition parties, the
Union of the Forces of Change (UFC) and the
Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), were not included in the government. Mally addressed the National Assembly with his policy programme on December 17, in which he said that the four main priorities of his government would be "consolidation of the Togolese nation; formation of solid bases of growth and development; improvement of the conditions of access to the essential services; and the reaffirmation of Togo's place in the community of nations." The programme was approved by the National Assembly with 42 votes in favor, 41 from the RPT and one from the CAR; three deputies from the CAR voted against it and the UFC did not participate in the vote. The UFC refused to vote on the grounds that there was not enough time given to analyze the programme; it also felt that, because 10 UFC deputies requested that the vote on the programme be conducted through secret ballot, it was a violation of procedure to not use a secret ballot.
Gilbert Houngbo was appointed to replace Mally on 7 September, and he succeeded Mally on 8 September. There were suggestions that Mally was replaced due to a perception that he was a weak prime minister with little control over his government; another factor may have been a desire to improve the government's image through the appointment of a technocrat as prime minister. In Houngbo's government, which was named on 15 September 2008, Mally was included as Minister of State for Health. Mally was dismissed from the government on 16 June 2011, and
Charles Kondi Agba was appointed to succeed him at the Ministry of Health. ==Family==