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Article: 4th LD, Writethru: Gabonese go to polls for presidential election
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- August 30, 2009
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4th LD, Writethru: Gabonese go to polls for presidential election
LIBREVILLE, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Gabonese went to polls on
Sunday to elect a new president to succeed late President Omar Bongo
Ondima who died of illness in Spain on June 8 this year.
Out of the country's 1.4 million population, 813,164 voters are
expected at the polling stations being under the scrutiny of
hundreds of international monitors, according to the Autonomous and
Permanent National Electoral Commission (CEANP) .
The presidential election is widely seen here as the most
important one as it will witness the first power transfer in the
country in 40 years.
In accordance with the Constitution of Gabon, a ...