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The Gabonese Socialist Party (, PSG) is a small
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
in
Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...
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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
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; 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;Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p503 Mamboundou finished third with 25% of the vote.


References

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