Oligui Nguema chief Coup wins the survey with an enormous margin

The navy chief of Gabon Gen Brice Oligui Nguema – who in 2023 carried out a coup d’état that concluded a dynasty of virtually 60 years – received the presidential elections on Saturday with over 90% of the votes, present the provisional outcomes.

Before the vote, the critics claimed that the brand new Constitution and the electoral code have been designed to present Oligui Nguema a snug path for higher work.

Some most opposition weights that might have introduced a critical political problem have been excluded from the race.

His electoral victory consolidates his grip on energy, nearly two years after led the disappearance of President Ali Bongo, whose household had been in energy to Gabon since 1967.

Oligui Nguema, 50 years previous, confronted seven different candidates, together with the previous prime minister Alain Claude Bilie-BY-CONTA, who served beneath the Bongo regime, and two stalwarts of the previous PDG occasion in Power, Stéphane Germain Iloko and Alain Simplicice Boungouères.

“Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is elected (president) by absolutely the majority of the votes expressed, with 575,222 votes”, introduced the inside minister Hermann Immegault.

His essential difficult, Bilie per Nze, acquired simply over 3% of the votes.

More than seven voters recorded out of 10 took half within the survey, that the authorities and a few observers greeted as which means that the elections happened in a clear and peaceable method.

However, there have been complaints of irregularities within the course of.

In some electoral seats the vote was delayed, whereas some voters on electoral capturing have been unable to search out out the place they needed to launch their vote.

Bilie-by-forks has declared that he was notably fearful by the statements that in some locations had not been stored in a secure place and that he feared that he might be used to fill the polls.

The victory of Oligui Nguema brings him a seven -year mandate and the sources to face corruption and unhealthy governance that characterised the time to energy of the Bongos.

The former extremely articulated commander of the republican elite guard proved to be very fashionable with a inhabitants raised to eliminate the dynastic domination, promising to free the nation of sick individuals who had contaminated the picture of Gabon.

The small Central African nation wealthy in oil and timber hosts solely 2.5 million folks.

Despite its sources, about 35% of the inhabitants nonetheless dwell beneath the $ 2 (£ 1.50) poverty threshold per day.