Oligui Nguema’s coup wins a huge margin

Gabon leader Gen. Price Oligoy Ngwima – who led in 2023 a coup that ended a strain close to 60 years – won the presidential elections on Saturday with more than 90 % of the vote, according to temporary results.

Before voting, critics argued that the new constitution and the electoral blog were designed to give Oligui Noguea a comfortable path to the higher position.

Some of the heavy opposition weights who could have represented a serious political challenge from the race were excluded.

His electoral victory strengthens his grip on power, nearly two years after President Ali Bongo, whose family has been in power in Gabon since 1967.

Allegoy Nguima, 50, faced seven other candidates, including former Prime Minister Alan Claude Billy Nazi, who served under the Bongo regime, two former PDG PDG, Stéphane Germain Iloko and Alain Simplice Boundères.

BRICE Clotaire Oligui Nguea has been elected [president] Through the absolute majority of the voices of 575222 votes, “Interior Minister Hermann Mengongolt announced.

His main rival, Bilie-By-Nze, received slightly more than 3 % of the sounds.

More than seven out of every 10 voters registered in the poll, which the authorities and some observers praised that they indicate that the elections took place with transparency and peace.

There were complaints about the cases of violations in this process.

At some polling stations, the vote was late, while some voters in the election list were unable to find the place of giving them.

Billy at an angle said that he was particularly concerned about the allegations that in some places, the polling papers have not been kept in a safe location, and that he is afraid that he will be used in the polls.

Oligui Nguea brings him seven -year mandate and resources to address corruption and bad governance that distinguishes Bongos’s time in power.

The former commander who expresses the former Republican Guard, who expresses a very common among the population who is comfortable to get rid of the family’s rule, and promised to rid the country of the disease, which was contaminated by Gabon’s image.

The wealthy nation of Central Africa is the home of only 2.5 million people.

Despite its resources, about 35 % of the population still lives below the poverty line of $ 2 (1.50 pounds) per day.