Morning Star.png Bongo Counters Ping's Claims of Skewed Election The Morning Star, London, 8 September 2016 Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba accused his rival Jean Ping yesterday of electoral fraud and an illegitimate bid to seize power. Mr Bongo (pictured) told France's Europe-1 radio: "Ping committed fraud" in his home constituency and others with the help of "cyber-criminals." But he said: "I am calm. Chaos will not descend." Mr Ping, Mr Bongo's former son-in-law, who split from his Gabonese Democratic Party two years ago, called for foreign support for his demands for a recount of last week's election. Mr Ping declared victory in the August 27 elections the following day, but final results on August 31 gave victory to Mr Bongo, prompting violence in which more than 50 people were killed and 1,200 opposition supporters arrested. A very high turnout in Mr Bongo's stronghold Haut-Ogooue province handed him a narrow victory. French PM Manuel Valls has called for a recount and US, France and EU observers have called for individual polling station counts to be released. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1fd3-Bongo-counters-Pings-claims-of-sk ewed-election#.V9D-Qfl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1fd3-Bongo-counters-Pings-claims-of-ske wed-election#.V9D-Qfl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14089 (20160908) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/004101d209b0%24161f74a0%24425e5de0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
