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Political Parties In Gabon
This article lists political parties in Gabon. Gabon is a one party dominant state with the Gabonese Democratic Party in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. The parties Parliamentary parties Other parties *African Development Movement (''Mouvement Africain de Développement'') *Common Movement for Development (''Mouvement Commun pour le Développement'') *African Forum for Reconstruction (''Forum Africain pour la Réconstruction'') *Democratic and Republican Alliance (''Alliance Démocratique et Républicaine'') *Gabonese Progress Party (''Parti gabonais du progrès'') * Gabonese Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste Gabonais'') *Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development (''Union Gabonaise pour la Démocratie et le Développement'') * Jeunesse Gabonais, the first political party in Gabonese history *Movement for National Rectification (''Mouvement de Redressement National'') *National Woodcutters Rally-Kom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. It is extremely rare for a country to have Non-partisan democracy, no political parties. Some countries have Single-party state, only one political party while others have Multi-party system, several. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to be an essential part of democracy. Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For The New Republic (Gabon)
The Union for the New Republic (french: Union pour la nouvelle république, UPNR) is a political party in Gabon led by Louis-Gaston Mayila. History The party was established by Mayila in July 2007. It supported Pierre Mamboundou of the Union of the Gabonese People 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 his death in 2011. History Mamboundou announced the UPG's establishment in Paris on 14 Jul ... in the 2009 presidential elections. In the 2011 parliamentary elections it received 1.2% of the vote, winning one seat. Adam Carr References {{Gabonese political parties[...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] |
Jeunesse Gabonais
The Jeunesse Gabonais was the first political party in colonial 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 .... Founded in 1922, it was "outspokenly anti-colonialist without being anti- French". The party's goals were primarily focused on improving educational opportunities and assimilated Gabonese involvement in colonial administration. References History of Gabon Defunct political parties in Gabon Political parties established in 1922 1922 establishments in Gabon {{Gabon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabonese Union For Democracy And Development
The Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development (french: Union gabonaise pour la démocratie et le développement, UGDD) was a political party in Gabon. History The party was formed in 2005 by Zacharie Myboto, a former 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 prior to the election) in the presidential election held on 27 November 2005. He finished third out of five candidates with 6.58% of the vote. The UGDD was legally recognized by the Ministry of the Interior on 27 April 2006.Zacharie Myboto GFC Parliamentary Group website In the 2006 parliamentary elections the party won 4 of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabonese Socialist Party
The Gabonese Socialist Party (french: Parti Socialiste Gabonais, PSG) is a small political party in Gabon. History The party was established in 1991, and merged into the African Forum for Reconstruction the following year. In 2006 the party's Augustin Moussavou King contested the presidential elections; he finished fourth out of five candidates with 0.33% of the vote. It supported Pierre Mamboundou of the Union of the Gabonese People in 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 ...;Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p503 Mamboundou finished third with 25% of the vote. References 1991 establishments in Gabon Political parties established in 1991 Political parties in Gabon Socialism in Gabon Socialist parties in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabonese Progress Party
The Gabonese Progress Party (french: Parti gabonais du progrès, PGP) is a political party in Gabon. History The PGP was established as a left-leaning party in March 1990, at the beginning of the wave of democratization that swept Africa in the early 1990s. Initially, its key leaders were Pierre-Louis Agondjo Okawé, who was President, Marc Saturnin Nan Nguema, who was Vice-President, and Joseph Rendjambe, who was Secretary-General.David E. Gardinier and Douglas A. Yates, ''Historical Dictionary of Gabon'' (2006), Third Edition, pages 256–257. Rendjambe died in unclear circumstances in May 1990, resulting in riots by angry opposition supporters in Port-Gentil and Libreville. In the 1990 parliamentary elections the PGP won 18 seats, emerging as the third-largest party. Agondjo Okawé was the PGP candidate in the 1993 presidential elections, finishing third amidst opposition allegations of fraud. President Omar Bongo of the Gabonese Democratic Party The Gabonese Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Common Movement For Development
The Common Movement for Development (, MCD) was a political party in Gabon, led by Paul Biyoghé Mba. History The party was established by Biyoghé Mba in 1994 after he left the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG).Paul Biyoghé Mba, Premier ministre aux réels pouvoirs Jeune Afrique, 21 October 2010 In 1997 the party won a seat in the Senate
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African Development Movement
The African Development Movement (french: Mouvement Africain de Développement, MAD) was a political party in Gabon led by Pierre Claver Zeng Ebome. History The MAD contested the 2001 parliamentary elections, winning one of the 120 seats in the National Assembly, taken by Zeng Ebome. He retained the seat in the 2006 elections, in which the party was part of the bloc supporting the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party. The party held its Fourth Congress on 10 February 2008, reaffirming its participation in the Presidential Majority and re-electing Zeng Ebome as its President. It lost its seat in the 2011 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2011. * Local electoral calendar 2011 * National electoral calendar 2011 * 2011 United Nations Security Council election Africa * 2011 Beninese presidential election * 2011 Beninese parliamentary el .... In 2010 it was one of several parties that merged to form the National Union. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Equality Front
Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or against monarchy; the opposite of monarchism ***Republicanism in Australia ***Republicanism in Barbados ***Republicanism in Canada ***Republicanism in Ireland ***Republicanism in Morocco ***Republicanism in the Netherlands ***Republicanism in New Zealand ***Republicanism in Spain ***Republicanism in Sweden ***Republicanism in the United Kingdom ***Republicanism in the United States **Classical republicanism, republicanism as formulated in the Renaissance *A member of a Republican Party: **Republican Party (other) **Republican Party (United States), one of the two main parties in the U.S. **Fianna Fáil, a conservative political party in Ireland **The Republicans (France), the main centre-right political party in France **Republican Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
