Ali Bongo Ondimba announces his candidacy

The 2023 elections were very present in the minds of activists of the Gabonese Democratic Party, around the distinguished comrade president, Ali Bongo Ondimba.

It was Saturday at the Botanical Garden,

L'Union, on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of their political formation.

Addressing the issue of future elections, Ali Bongo Ondimba clearly hinted

Not without specifying

Ali Bongo is launching the big maneuvers for 2023

The approach is still borrowed.

The step, on the other hand, is firmly decided.

Saturday, Ali Bongo Ondimba comes to the podium.

In front of him, the crowd of the big days, that of before the Covid.

Nearly 8,000 people, white-hot, waving flags in the colors of Gabon and chanting

The atmosphere is electric.

It's been four years.

Four years that the Head of State had not physically spoken to the activists of the Gabonese Democratic Party.

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Physically, the after-effects are still visible.

The president walks today with the help of a cane.

His speaking rate is slightly slowed down.

But intellectually,

leave little doubt as to his desire to represent himself

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To tell the truth, this deadline, the Head of State thinks about it every day.

For at least three years.

an intimate believes.

Bongo again?

Let's go for a new lap with the universal legatee of the Bongo dynasty who inherited the throne from dad on the death of the latter in 2009

did he say on Saturday?

How can the tenant of the Palace by the sea indeed not think of the calamitous conditions,

in which he was reappointed in 2016 with the tragedy of Haut-Ogooué which had swung like the effect of a prodigious miracle the results of the ballot which gave Jean Ping the winner?

A black spot which has earned, moreover, the banishment of Gabon by the European Union and which the now future pretender intends to wash away forever.

And he will be able to do so all the more easily since the opposition is no more than a shadow of itself.

Will Ali Bongo take the risk of crossing the Rubicon?

Because he is the hostage of a tribal and family entourage which puts the country all the more frantically in regular cut that he fears the end of his reign and the beginning of all the uncertainties, with the many saucepans that some and the others were able to hang out after walking the halls of the Marble Palace for several decades.

Le Pays understands, and perhaps about the

of power to his son Noureddin Edouard Bongo, whom many observers present as the putative dolphin, on whom the political spotlight is trained in the perspective of the perpetuation of the presidential dynasty.

Things are now clear,

Ali Bongo, heir to the Bongo clan, does not intend to leave the palace bequeathed to him by his deceased father.

The Gabonese have been warned.

It would therefore take more than a stroke or an election to shake this dynasty which has invested the mysteries of power for decades and which does not seem ready to stop in this country.