Gabon: legislative elections, austerity, consensus for creditor renegotiations

Summary The scheduling of long overdue legislative and municipal elections removes one significant political stressor facing the Ondimba administration in Gabon. The Gabonese government will work with its new opposition to achieve consensus necessary to sustain unpopular austerity measures sufficient to negotiate new international economic structural supports. Analysis Gabon’s electoral center announced August 7 that legislative and local elections have been scheduled for October 6. The scheduling of the long-overdue elections complies with the country’s Constitutional Court order and will essentially be a referendum on the government’s unpopular economic austerity measures. The elections outcome is likely to disfavor the ruling …

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