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General elections were held in Gabon on 19 March 1967 to elect a President and the National Assembly.Incumbent Léon M'ba of the Gabonese Democratic Bloc was the only candidate in the presidential election and was elected unopposed. [1]
"French Congo. Natives from Gabon": Colonial postcard c.1905. In 1838 and 1841, France established a protectorate over the coastal regions of Gabon by treaties with Gabonese coastal chiefs. . American missionaries from New England established a mission at the mouth of the Komo River in 1842. In 1849, the French authorities captured an illegal slave ship and freed the captives on board. The ...
1940: the colony of Gabon rallies to the Free French (France libre) after several battles between Vichyste and Gaullistes. 1946: Jean-Hilaire Aubame, founder of the Union Démocratique et Sociale du Gabon, is the first Gabonese elected to the French National Assembly. 1946: Haut-Ogooué is definitively attached to Gabon.
This is a timeline of History of Gabon. Each article deals with events in Gabon in a given year. Twentieth century 1990s ... 1967 1968 1969. Twenty-first century ...
The elder Bongo came to power in 1967, seven years after Gabon gained independence from France. He ruled over the small nation with an iron fist, imposing a one-party system for years and only ...
The BDG was the only party to contest the 1967 general elections, resulting in M'ba being re-elected unopposed and the party winning all 47 seats in the National Assembly. The following year the country became a one-party state with the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG, the successor to the BDG) as the sole legal party.
The BDG was the only party to contest the 1967 general elections, with M'ba re-elected as President. M'ba died later in the year and was succeeded by Omar Bongo. On 12 March 1968 the BDG was succeeded by the Gabonese Democratic Party, [7] which became the sole legal party.
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