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GABON: Local Elections

GABON: Local Elections The ruling party wins a landslide. President Ali Bongo 's party won a substantial victory in municipal and regional elections, electoral officials said on December 20th, in a result that came as no surprise to observers. Some 579,600 voters went to the polls on December 14th to elect councillors, who will in turn elect mayors and senators across the country. The ruling Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) took 1,517 of the 2,404 council seats at stake, according to provisional results issued by the autonomous and permanent national electoral commission (Cenap). “The PDG is holding up right over the territory, even if in some constituencies in (the capital) Libreville, it has sustained slight losses,” presidential spokesman Alain‐Claude Bilie Bi Nze told AFP . “The turnout rate is considerably over the 55–60% mark and this return to the ballot boxes is a good sign,” he added, recalling that the abstention rate was close to 70% in the last local polls in 2008. The main novelty of this election was the use of biometric scanning methods to enrol and identify voters in a bid to prevent fraud. The PDG was the only party to put up candidates in all 122 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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0001-9844
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1467-825X
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2014.05469.x
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The ruling party wins a landslide. President Ali Bongo 's party won a substantial victory in municipal and regional elections, electoral officials said on December 20th, in a result that came as no surprise to observers. Some 579,600 voters went to the polls on December 14th to elect councillors, who will in turn elect mayors and senators across the country. The ruling Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) took 1,517 of the 2,404 council seats at stake, according to provisional results issued by the autonomous and permanent national electoral commission (Cenap). “The PDG is holding up right over the territory, even if in some constituencies in (the capital) Libreville, it has sustained slight losses,” presidential spokesman Alain‐Claude Bilie Bi Nze told AFP . “The turnout rate is considerably over the 55–60% mark and this return to the ballot boxes is a good sign,” he added, recalling that the abstention rate was close to 70% in the last local polls in 2008. The main novelty of this election was the use of biometric scanning methods to enrol and identify voters in a bid to prevent fraud. The PDG was the only party to put up candidates in all 122

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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