(Reuters) – Voters in Gabon headed to the surveys on Saturday to choose a brand-new structure that will surely cleared the path to autonomous regulation after a profitable stroke ousted the Bongo empire in 2015.
The brand-new structure will surely current two-term restrictions on the presidency, eliminate the setting of head of state and acknowledge French as Gabon’s functioning language. The governmental time period will surely be evaluated 7 years.
General Brice Oligui Nguema, the appearing head of state that took energy in a profitable stroke in 2015, is prompting residents to simply accept the brand-new structure, which he states symbolizes the junta’s dedication to charting a brand-new program for Gabon.
Military policemans fell the federal authorities in August in 2015. The ousted head of state, Ali Bongo, had truly dominated contemplating that 2009. His papa, Omar, had truly dominated contemplating that 1967.
It was the eighth profitable stroke in West and Central Africa contemplating that 2020. Western powers and native our bodies have truly pressed armed forces leaders to carry political elections inside sensible durations.
(Reporting by Gerauds Wilfried Obangome and Jessica Donati)
