“August 2025: elections and end of the transition,” a regime spokesman said on live state TV, referring to an official but “indicative” transition timeframe, adopted by cabinet but to be submitted to a national conference next year.
The conference, scheduled for April 2024, would be made up of all the country’s “vital actors”.
The army and the opposition both deemed the August 30 presidential election to be rigged, and hours after, military authorities toppled 64-year-old Ali Bongo, the country’s first president since 2009.
A two-year transition before the democratic elections promised by the nation’s new military authorities, according to Gabon’s new prime minister Raymond Ndong Sima, is a “reasonable objective.”
The leader of the coup d’etat against Ali Bongo Ondimba, General Brice Oligui Nguema, named Ndong Sima to lead the transitional administration.
