{"id":6417,"date":"2016-07-18T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/gabon-ali-bongos-candidature-validated-amidst-controversy\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2016-07-18T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:41:32","slug":"gabon-ali-bongos-candidature-validated-amidst-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/gabon-ali-bongos-candidature-validated-amidst-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon: Ali Bongo&rsquo;s candidature validated amidst controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gabon\u2019s National Electoral Commission, <span class=\"caps\">CENAP<\/span>, has validated the candidature of president Ali Bongo Ondimba and 13 others vying for the presidency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the 13 candidates, there was that of Ali Bongo. There was consensus on the other 13 candidates except that of Ali Bongo. The plenary assembly usually takes decisions based on consensus and when there is no consensus, the vote of the bureau decides. A vote took place in accordance with the law of the electoral commission. Therefore, only electoral commission decided, concerning Ali Bongo\u2019s candidature 5 votes against 3 for the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision has however been strongly criticised by opposition representatives at the electoral commission who are raising voices that Ali Bongo has changed his birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2016\/07\/18\/gabon-ali-bongo-s-candidature-validated-amidst-controversy\/\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabon\u2019s National Electoral Commission, CENAP, has validated the candidature of president Ali Bongo Ondimba and 13 others vying for the presidency. \u201cOut of the 13 candidates, there was that of Ali Bongo. There was consensus on the other 13 candidates except that of Ali Bongo. The plenary assembly usually takes decisions based on consensus and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-gabon-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens","item-theme-documents-d-identite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}