Michael Moussa-Adamo, the Central African country’s representative to the USA, stated in a letter to the New York Times on Monday that the Gabonese Constitutional Court would undertake a review of the election result, including a “recount of the vote”.
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Gabon’s Constitutional Court upheld President Ali Bongo’s victory in elections last month, following a complaint by the opposition that a recount was needed because the outcome had been rigged. According to the team of Jean Ping, a response to this communication the president is scheduled Wednesday.
“If there is a refusal to secure installations. the workers will leave them at the employer’s risk”, Binet said, adding: “Forcing workers to stay on site, against their will. would be to expose installations to all kinds of risks”.
Gabonese security forces were deployed ahead of the constitutional court’s announcement on the presidential election results, which declared the incumbent, Ali Bongo, the victor.
At least six people were killed in clashes after the election result was announced.
Ping insisted that the vote was fraudulent and filed a legal challenge with the country’s highest court.
“This decision does not bring the Gabonese people together and it does not appease them because they don’t recognize it, nor does the worldwide community, which gives it no value”, Ping said.
Gabon’s Constitutional Court has rejected the African Union’s (AU) proposed observer mission to the central African nation as it prepares to deliver a verdict on the contentious presidential elections of August 27.
The head of the court, Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo, was the long-time mistress of Ali Bongo’s father Omar Bongo, who ruled for 41 years.
Jean Ping says Constitutional Court demonstrated “bias” in its “unjust” decision to validate Bongo’s presidential win. The reelected president won with 50.66 percent of the votes, faced with 47.24 percent won by Ping.
With the country in political limbo for almost a month, the court was to rule on whether to uphold Bongo’s victory by fewer than 6,000 votes, or to overturn it.
The court partially changed the results of the bitterly-fought election, cancelling votes from 21 stations over irregularities. The Secretary-General calls for the release of any persons detained arbitrarily during the electoral process.
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Gabon’s newly re-elected president, Ali Bongo, said Saturday that he would seek to form a new government based on a national political dialogue that will “most likely” include leading opposition figures.
