Mike Jocktane

Libreville, Sep 1 (RHC) Representatives of the opposition political platform that lost the recent elections in Gabon, requested the military junta to recognize their victory in the elections.

In this sense, the campaign director of this political formation, Mike Jocktane, advocated the resumption of the electoral process under the supervision of the Armed Forces.

Jocktane considers that the leading candidate of that organization, Albert Ondo Ossa, who officially received 30.77 percent of the votes, achieved victory at the polls, but that the recount was interrupted.

Gabon's electoral authorities confirmed the re-election of President Ali Bongo with 64.27 percent of the votes against his rival.

The military who carried out the coup had declared that the recent elections did not meet the conditions of transparency, credibility and inclusiveness expected by the Gabonese, a reason that would have triggered the uprising.

During the coup, the military accused Bongo's government of being irresponsible, unpredictable, and marked by a social degradation that threatened to lead the country into chaos.

Meanwhile, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, until recently commander-in-chief of the Republican Guard, was appointed head of the so-called Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) and will be sworn in before the Constitutional Court on September 4.

President of the country since 2009 after the death of his father Omar Bongo, the deposed president was re-elected in 2016 in elections questioned by the political opposition due to alleged irregularities.With an estimated population of more than two million 300 thousand inhabitants, Gabon, located on the west coast of Central Africa, has an economy that depends mainly on its mining, oil and resource exports. (Source:PL)