{"id":53858,"date":"2025-04-14T06:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/brice-clotaire-oligui-nguema-elected-gabon-s-president-with-90-of-votes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:02:23","slug":"brice-clotaire-oligui-nguema-elected-gabon-s-president-with-90-of-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/brice-clotaire-oligui-nguema-elected-gabon-s-president-with-90-of-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema elected Gabon&#8217;s president with 90% of votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nguema secured a commanding victory with 90.35% of the vote, Interior Minister Hermann Immongault confirmed. His closest rival, former Prime Minister Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze, garnered just 3.02%.<\/p>\n<p>The election registered 920,200 eligible voters, including over 28,000 from abroad, and achieved a voter turnout of 70.4%, the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Gabon\u2019s first presidential election since the ousting of former President Ali Bongo Ondimba, and represents a key milestone in the country&#8217;s return to constitutional governance following the political transition.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-85585\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg\" alt=\"Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has been elected Gabon&#039;s president with 90% of votes\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who has served as Gabon\u2019s transitional head of state since the 2023 military coup, has officially been elected president, according to results announced by the Ministry of Interior on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000085584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000085584,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4ea373cbc90bfe093ce47be8e55f953b71e15439.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000085584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53858"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53858"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}