Gabon: Junta Navigating Glide Path to Consolidate Power 2025 Elections
Gabon: Junta Navigating Glide Path to Consolidate Power 2025 Elections
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Summary:
- Context: Gabon’s 2025 presidential election is shaped by the 2023 military coup that brought Brigadier General Brice Oligui Nguema to power and initiated a tightly controlled transition aimed at legitimizing his regime.
- Constitutional and institutional changes: Since the coup, the regime rewrote the constitution to allow military-era leaders to hold office, removed the prime minister’s role, extended presidential terms to seven years, lowered the electoral thresh
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