In Gabon, the opposition announced on Tuesday the creation of a new group called Platform Alternation 2023. Objective, to drive out of power, in 2023, the Gabonese Democratic Party, the party of President Ali Bongo who has ruled Gabon for 55 year.
With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves Laurent Goma
One by one, the 42 opponents and members of civil society followed one another to sign the pact of commitment and trust which constitutes the basis of their new grouping.
The signatories agreed to win power in the 2023 presidential election and to govern together. Paulette Missambo, president of the National Union, was brought to head the platform. ” As part of the fight for electoral transparency, I was unanimously elected president of this platform “, she said.
First major meeting of the platform, the political encounter between the majority and the opposition announced by President Ali Bongo in his message of wishes to the nation. Paulette Missambo will lead her troupe. ” NOTWe will go to this consultation in close ranks to achieve the objective we have set ourselves. If it is the Head of State who leads the consultation? That, we don’t know, but what we want is that he is not judge and party. It may be necessary to find an independent personality to be able to be the moderator “, according to her.
The date of the next presidential election is not yet known. It remains to be seen whether the block created on Tuesday will resist for a long time.