Incumbent Ali Bongo will soon be declared winner of the Gabonese presidential election, according to an official result leaked to Reuters.
The result shows a tight race and gives Bongo a narrow victory over his challenger Jean Ping.
Ping’s camp has denounced the yet to be declared official result as fraudulent, adding that the Gabonese will not accept it.
A senior source in the commission and a member of the body allied to Ping’s camp confirmed the commission numbers gave Bongo a 49.85 percent share of the vote to Ping’s 48.16 percent.
The electoral commission was scheduled to release the results of Saturday’s poll on Tuesday evening, but by 11.15 a.m. (1015 GMT) the following day, the panel was still in a closed-door meeting.
“This is a masquerade,” a commission member for Ping’s party, Paul Marie Gondjout, told Reuters outside the commission. The opposition…
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