Gabonese Democratic Party

The Gabonese Democratic Party (French: Parti Démocratique Gabonais, abbreviation PDG, former Gabonese Democratic Block) is a political party in the West African state of Gabon. The theme of the party is: dialogue, tolerance, peace. She was originally coined African- socialist and now has a liberal and capitalist orientation.

Influence

It is the most influential party and the current ruling party of the country.

The party has also offshoots ( " Federations " ) outside of Gabon, the largest being in the former colonial power France and the United States.

In the National Assembly of Gabon, the PDG currently holds 86 of the 120 seats in the Senate of Gabon it holds 54 of 91 seats.

History

The party was originally founded in 1946 by Léon M'ba as an offshoot of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain in Gabonese part of the colony of French Equatorial Africa under the name Mouvement Mixte Gabonais (MMG ). 1953 she was beneath him in " Gabonese Democratic Block": renamed (French Bloc Démocratique Gabonais ). The strongholds of the party were mainly in the cities. The Gabonese Democratic Bloc was an influential party, first under Léon M'ba before the country's independence. In 1957 they came - also by means of the European section of the population - to power and led the country to independence in 1960.

The party was founded under its current name on 12 March 1968. After the death of the first president M'bas Omar Bongo took over the presidency of the party, since she was the Unity Party of Gabon. In May 1990, however, amendments to the Constitution were enforced, which abolished the formal one-party rule of the PDG and introduced a multi-party system in Gabon. The PDG, however, remained the dominant political force in the country. The President Omar Bongo, who ruled until 2009, there was, almost dictatorial as a member of the PDG.

In the parliamentary elections on 9 December 2001, the party PDG won 88 seats out of 120 of the National Assembly of Gabon, in the parliamentary elections on 17 December 2006, the PDG won 80 seats in the National Assembly. However, this time winning parties involved with the PDG closed a coalition, also several seats.