Off the wire
• Cannavaro to coach Chinese soccer club Quanjian: report  • Gabonese judges protest to demand judicial independence  • China Focus: Guangdong pilots opening up gaokao to migrant students  • China calls for joint efforts to deal with overcapacity  • Indian PM greets Muslim community on beginning of Ramadan  • 2nd LD-Writethru: Chinese shares close mixed Tuesday  • China Exclusive: 4-yr-old backpacker splits online community  • Commentary: China committed to cutting steel overcapacity  • Climate change threat to bottom of marine food chain: New Zealand study  • China's forex reserves dip in May  
You are here: 　 Home

Gabon's presidential polls set for Aug. 27, 2016

Xinhua, June 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Gabon's National Autonomous and Permanent Electoral Commission (CENAP) announced on Monday that the country's presidential elections will be held on Aug. 27, 2016.

"The presidential elections will be held on Aug. 27, 2016," the commission's president Rene Aboghe Ella said after a plenary session of CENAP, which he chaired at the institution's headquarters in Libreville.

Ella said the deadline for submission of nomination documents will be July 12 at 6 p.m. (local time).

Each candidate will have to pay a fee of 33,000 U.S. dollars which should be paid while submitting the nomination papers.

Over ten people have declared their candidature, including incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba, the former African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping, ex-Speaker of parliament Guy Nzouba Ndama and ex-prime minister Casimir Oye Mba. Endit