1998 Gabonese presidential election

1998 Gabonese presidential election
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Candidate Omar Bongo Pierre Mamboundou Paul Mba Abessole
Party PDG UPG RNB
Popular vote 211,955 52,278 41,701
Percentage 66.88% 16.50% 13.16%
President before election

Omar Bongo
PDG

Elected President

Omar Bongo
PDG

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Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 6 December 1998. Incumbent President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967, sought a seven-year term against five other candidates. It was Gabon's second multi-party presidential election and, despite low turnout and polling problems, Bongo won the election with 66.88% of the vote.[1][2]

Campaign

In late July 1998, the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) called for Bongo to run for re-election, praising him as a "trump card for the third millennium". Also in July, the opposition National Woodcutters' Rally (RNB) split into two factions, one headed by Paul Mba Abessole and one headed by Pierre-Andre Kombila, after Kombila was expelled from the party.[3]

Pierre Mamboundou of the Union of the Gabonese People (UPG) ran as the candidate of the High Council of the Resistance, a coalition of opposition parties that included the UPG, the African Forum for Reconstruction, the Mebiame Group, MORENA–Original and the Socialist Emancipation Movement of the People.[4][5] The Gabonese Progress Party (PGP) of Pierre-Louis Agondjo Okawé supported Mamboundou.[6]

Opinion polls

The publication of opinion polls was prohibited by the National Communication Council during the week immediately preceding the election.[7]

Results

According to final results from the Constitutional Court, Bongo won the election with 66.88% of the vote. Mamboundou officially placed second with 16.54% of the vote.[8][9] Mamboundou denounced the official results as an "electoral coup d'etat" and called on the people to begin a "graduated response" by engaging in a stay at home ("ghost city") protest.[9] Following the election, he alleged that commandos sent by the government tried to kill him on 12 December 1998.[10] While Mamboundou's call for people to stay at home was mostly ignored in Libreville, Port-Gentil was reportedly "paralysed".[11]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Omar BongoGabonese Democratic Party211,95566.88
Pierre MamboundouUnion of the Gabonese People52,27816.50
Paul Mba AbessoleNational Woodcutters' Rally41,70113.16
Pierre-André KombilaNational Woodcutters' Rally – Democratic4,8471.53
Pierre Claver Maganga MoussavouSocial Democratic Party3,1520.99
Martin Edzodzomo-ElaIndependent1,5480.49
Alain Engouang NzeNational Confederation of Woodcutters Associations8920.28
Joseph Adrien Mabicka MaguenaIndependent5270.17
Total316,900100.00
Source: African Elections Database

Aftermath

Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane was Bongo's campaign manager during the election, and he was subsequently appointed as Prime Minister in January 1999.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Gabon presidential election". BBC News. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p404 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
  3. ^ "GABON: Ruling party seeks Bongo re-election", IRIN-WA Update 259 of Events in West Africa, 25–27 July 1998.
  4. ^ "Gabon: Two presidential candidates declared", Africa No 1 radio (nl.newsbank.com), 6 June 1998.
  5. ^ Elections in Gabon African Elections Database
  6. ^ "Gabon: Opposition leader says President Bongo prisoner of his own men", Radio France Internationale (nl.newsbank.com), 24 August 1999.
  7. ^ "GABON: Presidential candidate accused of gun running", IRIN-West Africa update 349, 30 November 1998.
  8. ^ "Gabon: Opposition leader protests at results, alleges assassination attempt", Radio France Internationale (nl.newsbank.com), 13 December 1998.
  9. ^ a b "GABON: Opposition calls for strike action to protest election results" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, IRIN-West Africa Update 359, 14 December 1998.
  10. ^ "U.S. Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2000 - Gabon", UNHCR.org, 26 February 2001.
  11. ^ "Gabon: Port Gentil "paralysed" by opposition strike", Africa No 1 radio (nl.newsbank.com), 15 December 1998.
  12. ^ New prime minister for Gabon BBC News, 23 January 1999

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