Gabon's leader Nguema elected president with 90.35% of vote, interior minister says

FILE PHOTO: Presidential candidate Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is pictured with his wife Zita Oligui Nguema after casting his vote during the presidential election, at a polling station inside a school, in Libreville, Gabon April 12, 2025. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) -Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday's presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country's interior minister said on Sunday.

The result cements Nguema's grip on power 19 months after the coup ended more than half a century of rule by the Bongo family in Gabon, an oil producer with a population of around 2.5 million.