Gabon president biography for kids
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Ali Bongo
President of Gabon from 2009 to 2023
This article is about the former President of Gabon. For the British magician, see Ali Bongo (magician).
Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959),[1][2] also known as Ali Bongo and Ali Ben Bongo,[1] is a Gabonese former politician who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023.[3][4][5] He is a member of the Gabonese Democratic Party. He is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. During his father's presidency, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1991, represented Bongoville as a deputy in the National Assembly from 1991 to 1999, and was the Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2009. After his father's death, he won the 2009 Gabonese presidential election.[6] He was reelected in 2016, in elections marred by numerous irregularities, arrests, human rights violations, and post-election protests and violence.[7][8]
On 30 August 2023, following the results of the Gabonese general election, the military ousted him from the presidency in a coup d'état due to lack of transparency in the election process and established a junta called the Committee for the
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Gen Brice Oligui Nguema: Who is Gabon's coup leader?
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President of Gabon
Head of state of Gabon
The president of Gabon (French: Président du Gabon) is the head of state of Gabon. A total of three people have served as president (not counting two acting presidents) since the post was formed in 1960.
The current transitional president, Brice Oligui Nguema, took power in a coup on 30 August 2023 from Ali Bongo.
Description of the office
[edit]Election
[edit]The president of the republic is elected for a presidential term of five (5) years, by universal and direct suffrage as per the 2023 Constitution amendement.[2] The president is renewable.[3] There was a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Gabon. This limit was lifted for Omar Bongo in 2003.[4]
The election is won by the candidate who obtains the largest number of votes.[3]
All Gabonese citizens, male and female, who are at least forty (40) years old, have resided in Gabon for at least twelve (12) months, and who enjoy their full civil and political rights are eligible to run for the seat of the presidency.[5]
The Constitutional Court may extend the provisioned time periods conforming to Article 11 below, but the elections may not take place more than thirty-five (35) days after the date of