{"id":113618,"date":"2025-04-14T06:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/gabon-coup-leader-wins-election-by-huge-margin\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:03:34","slug":"gabon-coup-leader-wins-election-by-huge-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gabon-coup-leader-wins-election-by-huge-margin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon coup leader wins election by huge margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 14 \u2013 Gabon\u2019s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema \u2013 who in 2023 led a coup that ended a near-60-year dynasty \u2013 has won Saturday\u2019s presidential election with more than 90% of the vote, provisional results show.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the vote, critics argued that the new constitution and electoral code were designed to give Oligui Nguema a comfortable pathway to the top job.<\/p>\n<p>Some opposition heavyweights who could have posed a serious political challenge were excluded from the race.<\/p>\n<p>His election victory consolidates his grip on power, nearly two years after he masterminded the demise of President Ali Bongo, whose family had been in power in Gabon since 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Oligui Nguema, 50, faced seven other candidates, including former Prime Minister Alain Claude Bilie-by-Nze, who served under the Bongo regime, and two stalwarts of the former ruling PDG party, St\u00e9phane Germain Iloko and Alain Simplice Boungou\u00e8res.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 14 \u2013 Gabon\u2019s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema \u2013 who in 2023 led a coup that ended a near-60-year dynasty \u2013 has won Saturday\u2019s presidential election with more than 90% of the vote, provisional results show. Ahead of the vote, critics argued that the new constitution and electoral code were designed to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}