General Brice Oligui Nguemaleader of the military junta that has run Gabon since last Wednesday’s coup, he was sworn in on Monday as “president of the transition”.
In a solemn ceremony held at the Presidential Palace of Renovation in Libreville, Nguema was sworn in before the Constitutional Court.
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“I swear before God and before the Gabonese people to faithfully preserve the republican regime,” said the coup leader, dressed in a red gala uniform, who He promised to “respect and enforce the Transition Charter and the law.”
He also pledged to fulfill their functions within “the superior integrity of the people” and to “preserve the achievements of democracy, the independence of the country and the integrity of the national territory.”
Nguema also promised “free and transparent elections” after the transition period, but did not give any schedule for calling those elections. In addition, the general promised an amnesty for “prisoners of conscience.”
The general was invested after the military took power on August 30 After the country’s electoral commission announced the victory of the now ousted Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, in the controversial elections on the 26th of the same month, which the opposition accused of fraudulent, did not have the presence of international observers and during which the internet was cut .
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The military then assured that the elections were not transparent, credible or inclusive, and accused the Executive of governing “irresponsibly and unpredictably”, thus deteriorating “social cohesion”.
In addition, the coup plotters they placed Bongo, whose cousin Nguema is, under house arrest for “high treason against State institutions” and “mass embezzlement of public funds”, among other crimes.
Despite condemnation of the coup by the African Union, the United Nations and the European Union, among others, Nguema, commander of the Republican Guard – an elite unit of the country’s Armed Forces – He took the oath this Monday and is entrenched in power.
The strong man of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), as the military junta calls itself, He already promised this Saturday, September 2, that the military will meet with the political parties to create “strong institutions” and activate democratic reforms.before calling “free” elections.
Bongo’s family – who became president after the death of his father, Omar Bongo, in Spain in 2009 – has been in power since 1967.
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The coup in Gabon, one of the oil powers of sub-Saharan Africa, It is the second to be produced in just over a month in Africa.after the Army seized power in Niger on July 26.
Gabon thus joined the list of countries that have had successful coups in the last three years. and in which, in addition to Niger, are Mali (August 2020 and May 2021), Guinea-Conakry (September 2021), Sudan (October 2021) and Burkina Faso (January and September 2022).
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