The Congress for Democracy and Justice (, CDJ) is a

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Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

, led by Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende.

History

The party won a single seat in the 1996 parliamentary elections. It retained its seat in the elections in

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and

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.Elections in Gabon
African Elections Database Bourdes-Ogouliguende ran for the presidency in the 2009 elections, finishing sixth out of eighteen candidates with 0.2% of the vote. In the 2011 parliamentary elections the party lost its one seat.

References

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