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Published on 2024-04-16 09:03:23
Already strong with about thirty members, Vision 2025 recorded four new political party memberships on Tuesday, April 16. The platform, chaired by Hervé Patrick Opiangah, is on track to become the strongest in the country, in anticipation of the elections originally scheduled for August 2025.
Born in the aftermath of the August 30, 2023 coup d’état, Vision 2025 continues to position itself in the national political sphere. Already strong with 30 members, the platform recorded four new political party memberships on Tuesday, April 16, some of which are from the former opposition. These include the Party of Republican Democrats (PRDEM), the Party of National Renewal (PRN), the Union of Alliances for a New Africa (UANA), and the Union for Progress and Democracy (UPD). These are all legally recognized political parties, as specified by Lézin Gualbert Koumba, president of the PRN.
With the arrival of these four new members, the platform, recently entrusted to Hervé Patrick Opiangah, president of the UDIS (Union for Democracy and Social Integration), no longer hides its ambition: to become the largest in terms of membership, but above all the most influential in the country. This would make it unavoidable. On the horizon are the presidential, legislative, and local elections announced for August 2025. But in the meantime, it intends to have a say throughout this transitional period during which the military aim to restore the institutions.
Vision 2025 aims to be a framework for work and reflection for the benefit of the new Gabon under construction. Its four new members justify their membership by the fact that the platform, like them, advocates for “the unification of energies [and] the concentration of moral and intellectual values.”
Read the original article(French) on Gabon Review
