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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and Libreville in Gabon after the immediate results of the 2009 Gabonese presidential election was announced. Two were left dead amid the unrest, clashes...
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Ali Bongo (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
Defense from 1999 to 2009. After his father's death, he won the 2009 Gabonese presidential election. He was reelected in 2016, in elections marred by numerous...
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Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 27 August 2016. Incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba ran for re-election and was challenged by former Minister...
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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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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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Jean Ping (category Gabonese people of Chinese descent)
is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who served as Chair of the African Union Commission from 2008 to 2012. Born to a Chinese father and Gabonese mother...
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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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Brice Oligui Nguema (category 20th-century Gabonese people)
aide-de-camp to President Omar Bongo until his death in 2009. He then served as a military attaché at the Gabonese embassies in Morocco and Senegal. In October 2018...
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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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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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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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Omar Bongo (category 21st-century Gabonese politicians)
January 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. Bongo was promoted to...
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he won the 2002 presidential election, which involved low opposition participation. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election. That same year...
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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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gubernatorial elections 2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election 2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election 2009 Gabonese presidential election 2009 Guinea-Bissau...
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inspiration for declaring himself winner of the controversial 2009 Gabonese presidential election, sparking an ongoing political crisis in Gabon. On 28 December...
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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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Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
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 and...
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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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Frederik X. 2024 Comorian presidential election: Amid an opposition boycott, incumbent president Azali Assoumani wins re-election with 62.9% of the vote...
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working in an oil-field in Gabon. Gabonese presidential election, 2016 Gabonese legislative election, 2016 2009 Gabonese protests "Gabon: Libreville reels...
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André Mba Obame (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2009; during that time, he was identified with the reformist wing of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). He held...
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Rose Francine Rogombé (category Gabonese Democratic Party politicians)
1942 – 10 April 2015) She was a Gabonese politician who was acting president of Gabon from June 2009 to October 2009, following the death of long-time...
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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...
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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 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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member of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). Myboto ran as an independent in the November 2005 presidential elections as the UGDD was not legalized...
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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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Augustin Moussavou King (category Gabonese Socialist Party politicians)
1959) is a Gabonese politician and the President of the Gabonese Socialist Party (PSG). Running as the PSG candidate in the presidential election held on...
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