Gabon: The new electoral law determines the campaign budget for Senate candidates
The new draft electoral law presented by Gabonese Minister of the Interior and Security, Herman Imongault, sets the spending ceiling for candidates in the Senate elections at 30 million CFA francs. These restrictions, which also apply to other elections, aim to avoid disparities in financial spending between candidates. The ceiling for spending by candidates in the local elections was set at 50 million CFA francs, while the ceiling for spending by candidates in the presidential elections reached 10 billion CFA francs in the first round and 5 billion CFA francs in the second round.
This was reported by the National Assembly. Gabonese on its website, noting that among the main measures stipulated in the draft law is the establishment of the Authority for Oversight and Supervision of Elections and Referendums, which is an independent and non-permanent institution, composed of neutral and specialized figures, and responsible for oversight. Supervising elections and referendum operations. It will be a non-permanent supervisory body and will be authorized to “issue recommendations to correct or prevent possible violations,” according to the Gabonese government.
Members of Gabon’s transitional parliament were invited to an extraordinary session starting last Friday, extending for ten days. Days, to study the new draft election law.
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