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Parliamentary elections were held in Gabon on 17 December 2006, although voting in seven seats took places on 24 December 2006 due to logistical problems. The ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) won 82 seats, with other parties that supported President Omar Bongo winning another seventeen seats, among them the National Woodcutters' Rally of Paul M'ba Abessole with seven seats (M'ba Abessole himself lost his seat, being defeated by the prime minister, Jean Eyeghe Ndong),[1] the Democratic and Republican Alliance with three seats, the Circle of Reformist Liberals with two seats and the Social Democratic Party with one seat.
Opposition parties won seventeen seats; the Union of the Gabonese People won eight seats, the Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development four, the Gabonese Progress Party two seats, the Congress for Democracy and Justice one seat, the African Forum for Reconstruction one seat and the National Woodcutters Rally-Kombila one seat.
Independents won four seats.[2][3]
- ^ "Media predicts waning popularity for Gabonese opposition leader" Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, AngolaPress, December 20, 2006.
- ^ "Bongo's party wins Gabon election", BBC News, December 22, 2006.
- ^ "Proclamation officielle des résultats des élections législatives par la Cour constitutionnelle" Archived 2007-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, InfoPlus Gabon. (in French)