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A constitutional referendum was held and approved in Gabon on 16 November 2024. [1] The vote was on a new constitution; [2] it proposed, among other things, a 7-year presidential term, renewable once consecutively. [3] The referendum may lead to the return to a civilian regime which the military junta promised after the coup d'état in 2023. [4]
In August 2023, a general election was held where incumbent president Ali Bongo won a third term with 64% of the votes. The results were heavily controversial and disputed and four days later, the Gabonese Army and the Gabonese Republican Guard, led by Brigadier General Brice Oligui Nguema, who was a cousin of Bongo, led a coup d'état which ousted and arrested Bongo and his government ...
In the 1958 referendum on establishing the French Community, 93% of voters voted in favour; a no vote would have resulted in immediate independence. Since independence in 1960, only one referendum has been held; a constitutional referendum in 1995, which saw amendments to the constitution approved by 96.5% of voters. [8]
The African Union, representing 55 member states, condemned the coup and has suspended Gabon from participating in all of the group’s activities “until the restoration of constitutional order.”
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The ouster of Gabon's president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population's grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power, analysts ...
May 1946 French constitutional referendum in Gabon–Moyen Congo; October 1946 French constitutional referendum in Gabon–Moyen Congo; 1958 Gabonese constitutional referendum; 1995 Gabonese constitutional referendum; 2024 Gabonese constitutional referendum
Radio Télévision Gabonaise is one of the state run television stations. Two channels are operated under their network. Gabon 24 is Gabon's first bilingual non-stop news television channel which launched on 24 May 2016. [5] [6] Télé Africa is one of the four privately owned television stations. [1]