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Most candidates are focusing their campaign on economic reforms
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improving infrastructures such as roads, schools, hospitals, addressing youth unemployment and implementing some social programs
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to support the elderly. The front-runner, former General Brice Olingingema, is supported by a broad coalition that includes civil society organizations
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and some political parties such as the Gabonese Democratic Party, which governed the country for almost 50 years
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However, the alliance between the military and the PDG has raised concern among some voters and rival candidates
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At the beginning, I believed in the coup d'état. But very quickly, like many others, we understood that we were tricked
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The coup made the Gabonese believe that the Bongo PDG regime had been deposed
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But this regime took power with guns rather than with the ballot box
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What is happening in Gabon is unprecedented. never before has a deposed regime supported the one that ousted it
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This view is not shared by supporters of Brice Olinguema, who argue that Gabon needs unity and inclusiveness
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to move past its cycle of political crisis. I think the Gabonese will not be mistaken at the polls
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They will know that Brice Cloté Olinguema is carrying an inclusive project for which people must be involved, whatever they did before
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With just two days left before the presidential election here in Gabon
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The atmosphere across the country is calm. Voters are hopeful and eager for a brighter future
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The campaign officially ends this Friday at midnight. On Saturday, 800,000 voters are expected to head to the polls
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for the country's first election under military rule
