Gabon: Junta announces presidential elections will hold in August 2025
By Nambu Bernadette
Gabon’s military ruler Gen Brice Nguema, has announced there will be a presidential election in the country on August 2025 Africanews has reported.
He made the announcement on Gabon’s state TV on Monday, November 13, 2023.
According to the reports, the junta leaders said the timetable is not final till after the dialogue involving government officials, civil society groups, and others which is scheduled for next year.
“August 2025: elections and end of the transition. Official transition timetable adopted by the Cabinet Meeting, but which remains indicative. This timetable must still be submitted to a national conference including all the nation’s vital actors scheduled for April 2024,” the military leader is reported to have said.
This move by the nation’s interim president is said to come due to pressure from the international community for him to announce a timetable for the return to civilian rule.
Ali Bongo succeeded his father as Gabon’s president. The 64-year-old Bongo had ruled Gabon, since succeeding his father Omar Bongo, who died in 2009, after 42 years in power.
