One year from the next Gabonese presidential election, in 2023, the major political maneuvers are starting. Saturday, July 2, the Democrats, the main opposition party, organized its first ordinary congress in Libreville. Delegates reappointed incumbent President Guy Nzouba Ndama, a former roost speaker in Gabon’s National Assembly for more than 20 years but then joined the opposition in 2016.
With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves-Laurent Goma
Re-elected unanimously and by a show of hands, Guy Nzouba Ndamarailed against the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), which poached its executives for ministerial posts:
” They want to destroy us, they want to weaken us. The CEO thinks he is weakening us, but he himself is weakening. Because the activists of the Gabonese Democratic Party ask themselves a thousand and one questions : what are they for ? »
In terms of elected officials, his party The Democrats constitute the second political force of Gabon with 10 deputies and 4 senators. Guy Nzouba Ndama has indicated that he will now devote himself to establishing his party throughout the country: ” Establish the party wherever necessary. This is what the activists entrusted to me as their primary responsibility. »
The activists are proud to have reappointed a heavyweight at the head of their party: ” We are very happy because things will soon change. It is necessary that a president of this stature can boost things. And he is the one we elected “, summarizes one. ” I am very happy, since for the moment, the Gabonese are still behind him “, continues another activist.
Guy Nzouba Ndama leaves room for doubt and announces nothing about his possible candidacy for the presidential election next year.
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