Gabon approves coup leader and ex-PM among candidates for presidential vote

Coup leader and former premier get nod to stand in Gabon presidential election

Constitutional Court approved a list of eight candidates for the April 12 election

Gabon Approves Coup Leader and Ex-PM Among Candidates for Presidential Vote

Gabon approves coup leader and ex-PM among candidates for presidential vote

Gabon's Constitutional Court has approved a list of eight candidates to run in the Central African nation's presidential election next month, including interim President Brice Oligui Nguema, who seized power in a military coup in 2023.

End of the suspense in Gabon for candidates for the presidential election of 12 April. The Constitutional Court validated, on Friday 21 March, the appeals of four candidates. They come in addition to the four others already known, including the leader of the transition, General Oligui Nguema. They will therefore be eight candidates, but not Jean-Rémy Yama, who remains at the dock.

Gabon: Constitutional court docket validates 8 presidential candidacies, together with that of navy chief Oligui Nguema - The North Africa Put up - Afric Info

In an important development for Gabon’s political panorama,the rustic’s constitutional court docket has formally validated 8 presidential candidacies for the

At the beginning of the last weekend, the Constitutional Court drew up four other candidates, which were added to the first four endorsed by the electoral body. Four personalities added to the provisional list of candidates for the presidential election of 12 April in Gabon. Alain Simplicite Boungoueres, Gninga Chaning Zenaba, Axel Stophène Ibinga and Thierry Yvon Michel N的Goma. The Constitutional Court re-insists them following the examination …