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Gabon Presidential Election 'lacked Transparency': EU Observers
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 29, 2016 | 09:05 PM
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LIBREVILLE, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th August, 2016) - Gabon's presidential election "lacked transparency", the head of the 73-strong EU electoral monitoring team in the country said on Monday, a day before the official results were due out.
"I congratulate Gabon's voters who have expressed their democratic will in a process that was managed in a way that lacked transparency," Bulgarian MEP Maryia Gabriel told journalists in the capital, Libreville. Opposition candidate Jean Ping had earlier accused Cenap, the national election commission that will publish the results of Saturday's poll, of "manipulation" and tampering with the outcome of the vote in which he sought to unseat the incumbent, Ali Bongo.
"The people of Gabon, who have mobilised massively.
.. and want me to run the country will never accept having the victory, their victory, stolen from them," he said at his campaign headquarters in Libreville. "(They) will defend by all means the victory that civil and military hawks now want to steal," he said, flanked by figures formerly associated with the Bongo regime who have supported his campaign. Ping also vowed to "guarantee complete security" for Bongo and his family if he stepped down from the presidency and pledged there would not be a "witch hunt" once he had departed. Ping, 73, worked for many years in the administration of Omar Bongo, Ali's father.
He has also served as head of the African Union and president of the UN General Assembly. He claimed victory on Sunday in front of thousands of his supporters.
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