LIBREVILLE, April 5, 2024 (AGP) – One week after the completion of the work of the National Inclusive Dialogue (DNI), and the submission of the report to the President of the Transition, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, the leaders of the Political Parties Forum, gathered around the Angondje Appeal, a press conference on Saturday, May 4 in Libreville, to express doubts regarding some resolutions adopted by the Political Commission, and that is to stop all political parties in Gabon, and the duty imposed on each candidate. in the presidential election to be born to a Gabonese father and mother.
Regarding the first point, if these political leaders say that they understand the suspension of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) and its allies, since they are the main authors of the evils that caused the “liberation coup” on 30 August, 2023, they will say to themselves “it will be a shame to see the unions and the dangerous slide towards a kind of blacklist of all political actors. ” They also want to crack down on the “real culprits”, who are “known”.
“Extending responsibility for the mess our country finds itself in to all political parties seems like a crazy move to let the real culprits escape, and create a case within the case,” said Joachim Mbatchi Pambou, who was a presidential candidate he spoke on behalf of the group.
Remembering that political parties are “necessary for democratic expression. Better, ideal for which so many men and women have fought in Gabon, some risking their lives”, the group wanted to receive from the Head of State, with a view to ” agree on the framework surrounding the proposal to suspend political parties.
As for the requirement to be an ethnic Gabonese to get to the presidency, these former DNI commissioners are afraid of the “real feeling of revolution” of the Gabonese, against “the foreign legion” that “has become incredibly rich on the back of the taxpayer. “, we will not slide to another end.
Finally, the members of the Angondje Appeal, while asking that the intentions of the DNI not be “another trick”, say that they are establishing a committee to monitor the actions and intentions of that dialogue.
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