For the first time since 1967, the elected president of Gabon has not carried the surname of Bongo Ondimba. After 19 months of leading a transition government that ended the 55 -year reign of the Bongo family, Brice Oligui Nguema was elected as president of Gabon for a period of seven years, on Sunday, April 13. Very popular and gained compliance with the provisional official results announced by the Ministry of Interior. Alain Claude Billie-by-Nze (3.02%), who had presented the most serious rival of Leg Oligui Nguema, could not make voters forget that he had the Bone Bone Prime Minister Ali Bongo, the former president (from 2009 to 2023) who is now despised. None of the other six candidate scores exceeded 1%.
The true unknown factor was electoral participation. It reached 70.4% (920,000 registered), which shows that Oligui Nguema had succeeded in his first bet: joining the voters. While the 2009 and 2016 elections were marked by police violence, the elections on Saturday, April 12, Tok Place in a festive spirit, without important incidents. The telephone network was maintained, like social media platforms. For the first time, television teams were allowed to film teams that counted the tickets and, according to a new law, each voting station had to show their results.
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