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1993 Gabonese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 5 December 1993, the first time more than one candidate had contested a presidential election in the country. Incumbent President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967, sought a five-year term against twelve other candidates. According to official results Bongo won in the first round with 51.2% of the vote. However, the main opposition leader, Paul Mba Abessole, alleged fraud, claimed victory, and threatened to form a rival government. Riots in 1994 practically brought the country to a standstill until Bongo agreed to attend a peace conference with opposition groups in September 1994, in which a coalition government was formed until the 1996 parliamentary election, which Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party won by a landslide. Campaign Bongo was supported by the "New Alliance", a coalition that included the Association for Socialism in Gabon, the Circle of Liberal Reformers, the Gabonese Socialist Union and the People's Unity Party. Results Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly and its population is estimated at million people. There are coastal plains, mountains (the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif in the centre), and a savanna in the east. Since its independence from France in 1960, the sovereign state of Gabon has had three presidents. In the 1990s, it introduced a multi-party system and a democratic constitution that aimed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed some governmental institutions. With petroleum and foreign private investment, it has the fourth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party (Gabon)
The Social Democratic Party (, PSD) is a political party in Gabon. It is part of the Presidential Majority coalition and is led by Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou. History The PSD was established in 1991. Maganga Moussavou was nominated as its candidate for the 1993 presidential election, finishing fourth in a field of thirteen candidates with 3.6% of the vote. He ran again in the 1998 presidential election, this time finishing fifth out of the eight candidates with 1% of the vote. The party won a single seat in the National Assembly in the 2001 parliamentary election, and subsequently joined the Gabonese Democratic Party The Gabonese Democratic Party (french: Parti Démocratique Gabonais, abbreviated PDG), is the ruling and dominant political party of Gabon. Between 1968 and 1990 it was the sole legal party. History The party was established as the Gabonese Dem ... (PDG)-led government.Tom Lansford (2015) ''Political Handbook of the World 2015'', CQ Press It did not put ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Elections In Africa
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Presidential Elections In Gabon
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Léon Mébiame
Léon Mébiame (1 September 1934 – 18 December 2015) was a Gabonese politician who was the 2nd Prime Minister of Gabon. From 1975 to 1990, he served as the longest-serving Prime Minister in Gabonese history, at 15 years and 17 days.''La politique africaine en 1969'' (1970), Ediafric, page 134 .David E. Gardinier and Douglas A. Yates, ''Historical Dictionary of Gabon'' (2006), third edition, page 209. Life and career A member of the Fang ethnic group, Mébiame was born in . ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For National Rectification–Unionist
The Movement for National Rectification–Unionist (french: Mouvement de Redressement National–Unioniste, MORENA–Unionist) is a political party in Gabon. History The party was established in 1992 by the MP Adrien Nguemah Ondo as a breakaway from the Movement for National Rectification. Nguemah Ondo ran in the 1993 presidential elections, receiving just 0.4% of the vote. It lost its seat in the 1996 parliamentary elections. The party did not nominate a presidential candidate again until the 2009 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2009. * Electoral calendar 2009 * 2009 United Nations Security Council election Caribbean * 2009 Antiguan general election * 2009 Aruban general election * 2009 Caymanian constitutional referendu ..., in which Bienvenu Mauro Nguema ran on the MORENA–Unionist ticket. He received only 293 votes (0.09%). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For National Rectification
The Movement for National Rectification (french: Mouvement de Redressement National, MORENA) is a political party in Gabon. History MORENA was established in 1981, and was forced to operate illicitly in Gabon as the country was a one-party state at the time. It declared itself a government-in-exile and was supported by the Socialist Party in France.Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p504 Its leaders in Gabon were arrested in 1981 and 1982 for handing out leaflets calling for the restoration of multi-party democracy. Although they were given long jail sentences, they were released in 1986 during a general amnesty. By the early 1990s, several breakaway factions had been formed, including MORENA–Woodcutters (later renamed National Woodcutters' Rally) and MORENA–Unionist; the original party went under the name MORENA–Original. It won seven seats in the 1990 parliamentary elections, whilst the Woodcutters faction won 20. In 1992 the party m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Centre Party Of Gabon
The Independent Centre Party of Gabon (french: Parti gabonais du centre indépendant, PGCI) is a political party in Gabon. History Established in 1990, the party nominated Jean-Pierre Lemboumba-Lepandou as its candidate for the 1993 presidential elections. He finished ninth in a field of thirteen candidates with 1.4% of the vote. In the 1997 local elections the PGCI won 14 seats. In 2002 it joined the Presidential Majority, supporting the Gabonese Democratic Party. It won one seat in the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ... in the 2003 elections, and went on to win two seats in the 2009 elections. The party nominated five candidates for the 2011 National Assembly elections, winning one seat. It was reduced to a single seat in the Senate in 2014 elections.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Forum For Reconstruction
The African Forum for Reconstruction (french: Forum Africain pour la Réconstruction, FAR) is a political party in Gabon led by Léon Mbou Yembi. History The party was established in 1992 as a merger of the Gabonese Socialist Party (PSG), the Gabonese Socialist Union (USG) and MORENA–Original, which between them had won eleven seats in the 1990 parliamentary elections. Léon Mbou Yembi was nominated as the party's candidate for the 1993 presidential elections, finishing eighth in a field of 13 candidates with 1.8% of the vote. The 1996 parliamentary elections saw the USG run alone, whilst the FAR won a single seat. It lost its seat in the 2001 elections, but regained it in the 2006 elections, with Mbou Yembi winning a seat. The FAR did not contest the 2005 presidential elections, although the PSG's Augustin Moussavou King ran, finishing fourth out of the five candidates with 0.3% of the vote. The party only nominated a single candidate for the 2011 elections The fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Mbou Yembi
Léon Mbou Yembi (15 January 1946Raphaël Misère-Kouka, ''Anthologie des poètes gabonais d'expression française : La concorde'', volume 1 (2008), page 104 . – 3 August 2019) was a Gabonese politician. He was the President of the African Forum for Reconstruction (FAR), a small, radical opposition party, and served as a Deputy in the National Assembly of Gabon from 2006 to 2011.Composition of the GFC , GFC website . Early life and education A member of the Vungu ethnic group, Mbou Yembi was born at Ilendo, near Mouila, and received his higher education in |
Democratic And Republican Alliance
The Democratic and Republican Alliance (, ADERE) is a political party in Gabon. History The party won a single seat in the 1996 parliamentary elections. It gained two more seats in the 2001 elections and retained all three seats in the 2006 elections, in which it was part of the bloc led by the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party. At a plenary session on 15 January 2010, ADERE decided to rejoin the Presidential Majority, which it had left in mid-2009, while expressing support for the reforms instituted by President Ali Bongo since taking office. The party lost all three seats in the 2011 elections. ADERE President Dieudonné Pambou Dieudonné is a French name meaning "Gift of God", and thus similar to the Greek-derived Theodore or the Spanish Diosdado. It may refer to: People Given name * Dieudonné Cédor (1925–2010), Haitian painter * Dieudonné Costes (1892–1973) ... died on 24 January 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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