The Congress for Democracy and Justice (, CDJ) is a

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 ideological or p ...

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 nort ...

, led by

Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende (28 February 1938 – 26 March 2018) was a Gabonese politician who was the President of the Congress for Democracy and Justice (CDJ), an opposition party. He served as a minister in the government of Gabon from ...

History

The party won a single seat in the 1996 parliamentary elections. It retained its seat in the elections in 2001 and 2006.Elections in Gabon
African Elections Database Bourdes-Ogouliguende ran for the presidency 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 ...

, finishing sixth out of eighteen candidates with 0.2% of the vote. In the 2011 parliamentary elections the party lost its one seat.

References

Political parties in Gabon {{africa-party-stub