Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 6 December 1998. Incumbent President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967, sought a seven-year term against five...
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Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 27 November 2005. Incumbent President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967 (making him Africa's longest-serving...
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Early presidential elections were held in Gabon on 30 August 2009. They took place due to the death of incumbent President Omar Bongo on 8 June, after...
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coalition government was formed until the 1996 parliamentary election, which Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party won by a landslide. Bongo was supported by...
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Democratic Party. In the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections it won eight seats, finishing behind the Gabonese Democratic and Social Union (UDSG), which had...
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Elections in Gabon take place within the framework of a presidential multi-party democracy with the Gabonese Democratic Party, in power since independence...
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departmental elections and 2023 Gabonese local elections (followed by the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état) 1908 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in Santiago...
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Ali Bongo (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
After his father's death, he won the 2009 Gabonese presidential election. He was reelected in 2016, in elections marred by numerous irregularities, arrests...
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spokesperson Jessye Ella Ekogha [fr], another presidential adviser and the two top officials in Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). The junta said that...
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Omar Bongo (category 21st-century Gabonese politicians)
side. The 1993 presidential election was extremely controversial but ended with his re-election then and the subsequent elections of 1998 and 2005. His...
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President of Gabon (redirect from Gabonese President)
lifted for Omar Bongo in 2003. The election is won by the candidate who obtains the largest number of votes. All Gabonese citizens, male and female, who are...
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Martin Edzodzomo-Ela (category Gabonese economists)
the pro-democratic Gabonese opposition. Edzodzomo-Ela ran as an independent candidate in the Gabonese presidential election of 1998, where he finished...
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Gabon (redirect from Gabonese Republic)
Gabon (/ɡəˈbɒn/ gə-BON; French pronunciation: [ɡabɔ̃] ), officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast...
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Politics of Gabon (redirect from Gabonese politics)
electoral decrees. When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M'Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18,...
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History of Gabon (redirect from Gabonese history)
electoral decrees. When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M'Ba in a bloodless coup on 18 February 1964...
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following elections occurred in the year 1998. 1998 Burkinabé presidential election 1998 Central African parliamentary election 1998 Gabonese presidential election...
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TV+ (Gabon) (category Television channels and stations established in 1998)
TV+ is a Gabonese private television channel founded in 1998. Throughout its history it was owned by former minister of the interior and opposition leader...
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of the Union of the Gabonese People. He finished second in the elections with 16.5% of the vote. In the 2009 presidential elections the party nominated...
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1993 presidential elections; He finished second with 26.5% of the vote. Although it won a majority of the contested seats in the 1996 local elections, the...
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The Union of the Gabonese People (French: Union du peuple gabonais, UPG) is an opposition political party in Gabon. It was led by Pierre Mamboundou until...
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Paul Mba Abessole (category Gabonese democracy activists)
single-party regime of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), he sought to stand as a candidate against Bongo in the 1979 presidential election, but was unable to...
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Albert Ondo Ossa (category Gabonese economists)
for the 2009 presidential election following the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba. In the run-up to the 2023 Gabonese general election held on 26 August...
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Pierre-André Kombila (category Gabonese cardiologists)
Pierre-André Kombila Koumba (born 8 May 1941) is a Gabonese politician, professor, and medical doctor. He was the First Secretary of the National Rally...
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Dominant-party system (category Elections)
1994 to 1996. Gabon: The Gabonese Democratic Party governed from independence in 1960 to 2023, ended with the 2023 Gabonese coup. Guinea-Bissau: African...
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Télé Africa is a Gabonese private television channel. A generalist channel aiming a wide audience, it airs a varied schedule with news, current affairs...
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The 1964 Gabonese coup d'état was staged between 17 and 18 February 1964 by Gabonese military officers who rose against Gabonese President Léon M'ba....
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The Gabonese Progress Party (French: Parti gabonais du progrès, PGP) is a political party in Gabon. The PGP was established as a left-leaning party in...
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Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane (born 6 October 1939) is a Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from 23 January 1999 to 20 January 2006. He...
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Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge (born 5 May 1946) is a Gabonese politician who was Vice-President of Gabon from 1997 to 2009. He is the President of the Democratic...
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Alexandre Sambat (category 1998 deaths)
Alexandre Sambat (4 October 1948 – 19 September 1998) was a Gabonese politician and diplomat. He was Gabon's Ambassador to the United States from 1991...
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