This figure was revealed on Sunday by the Minister of the Interior Lambert Noël Matha during the ceremony of handing over the electoral lists to the president of the Gabonese Election Center (CGE), Michel Stéphane Bonda.
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With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves Laurent Goma
Sober ceremony Sunday at the end of the morning in the courtyard of the Ministry of the Interior. The President of the Gabonese Elections Center (CGE), Michel Stéphane Bonda symbolically received from the Minister of the Interior a transparent ballot box, a voting booth and a box containing the electoral list.
” Electoral college stands at 846,822 voters, an increase of 158,120 new voters said Lambert Noël Matha, Minister of the Interior.
According to the law, the Minister of the Interior should have handed over this material on July 26. Four days late, it’s not too serious, said Michel Stéphane Bonda, president of the CGE.
” The work carried out by the Ministry of the Interior was done on time. This is why we can only congratulate ourselves. »
Gabon only has 26 days left to hold the August 26 elections within the constitutional deadline, namely: presidential, legislative and local elections. This week-end, civil society and the opposition have called the halting of the electoral process, which they consider ill-prepared.