Gilberto da Piedade Verissimo, president of the ECCAS commission, has been widely criticized since taking office in 2020. Internal tensions with, in the background, a standoff between Gabon and Angola.
The Angolan would have surrounded himself with a small group of trusted collaborators. All administrative and financial services are attached to him, and he would only answer to the authority of the president who has made him a sort of “ right arm ” “Verissimo is vomited. He watches for the slightest opportunity to create problems,” says an observer in Libreville.