Highlights: Gabon: around forty parties denounce non-inclusive dialogue. In Gabon, the debates at the inclusive national dialogue, which opened on Tuesday, have not yet started. Representatives of these parties denounced the monopolization of all roles by the organizing committee. They regretted the forceful assignment of their representatives to dialogue in commissions of which they did not have necessarily the skill. The President of the Republic himself feared a dialogue between politicians and politicians, well, here we are, says Yves Laurent Goma.

Gabon: around forty parties denounce non-inclusive dialogue

In Gabon, the debates at the inclusive national dialogue, which opened on Tuesday, have not yet started. Yesterday Thursday, the chairmen of the committees and subcommittees were appointed by presidential decree. The same decree affects all the commissioners in a commission. A group of around forty parties, brought together within a coalition monitoring committee for a true inclusive dialogue, have stepped up to the plate.

A general view of the opening ceremony of the national dialogue, with the President of the Transition Brice Oligui Nguema in the center in red, in Libreville, Gabon, April 2, 2024. © WILFRIED MBINAH / AFP

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During a press conference, the representatives of these parties denounced the monopolization of all roles by the organizing committee and regretted the forceful assignment of their representatives to dialogue in commissions of which they did not have necessarily the skill. The explanations of Thierry d'Argendieu Kombila, president of this committee, on the microphone of our correspondent in Libreville,

Yves Laurent Goma

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This is a clever maneuver, aimed at isolating members from political parties, to the extent that, when you look for example at the political commission, which is nevertheless responsible for reforming the institutions, the political parties complain of not being represented in this commission and distributed in commissions for which many do not have the competence. »

RFI: Do you mean that your representatives in the

inclusive national dialogue

are subject to a diktat?

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Yes, everything is imposed. We have never attended a dialogue where the participants are automatically designated by the organizing committee. This is still quite unprecedented in the Gabonese Republic. You know very well that we are in a context of national consensus, but it cannot be a soft consensus. The President of the Republic himself feared a dialogue between politicians and politicians, well, here we are. »

RFI: The soldiers said: “special regime, special operation”.

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But if that's the case, there's no point in calling for an inclusive dialogue, so organize a non-inclusive dialogue

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Gabon: around forty parties denounce non-inclusive dialogue

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