IT SEEMS THAT THE GABONESE PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR A STRONG PRESIDENTIAL REGIME. IT'S MADNESS! IL PARAITRAIT QUE LES GABONAIS DEMANDENT UN RÉGIME PRÉSIDENTIEL FORT. C’EST UNE FOLIE !
English Version For the past few days, we have been witnessing the publication of trial balloons by many compatriots, some even university professors, announcing that the Gabonese population would be in favor of the promulgation of a strong presidential regime. This is a way for these people to say that Brice-Clotaire Oligui-Nguema should stay in power for a long time. Dear readers, this is the kind of trickery that has led Gabon into the ditch we are currently witnessing. The Gabonese people have never said they want a strong presidential regime, and any Gabonese who prescribes such a regime for the country, is either politically illiterate or someone who eats their share next to Oligui-Nguema. These "appellists" of a new kind even dare to push the callousness to the point of affirming that the French Fifth Republic is a strong presidential regime; which is very wrong! In a strong presidential system, the government is not a collegial body ema