The Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development (french: Union gabonaise pour la démocratie et le développement, UGDD) was a

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Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

History

The party was formed in 2005 by

Zacharie Myboto Zacharie Myboto (born 1938) is a Gabonese politician and President of the National Union (UN), an opposition party. He was the Administrative Secretary of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) from 1972 to 1990 and served in the government from 19 ...

, a former member of the ruling

Gabonese Democratic Party The Gabonese Democratic Party (french: Parti Démocratique Gabonais, abbreviated PDG), is the ruling and dominant political party of Gabon. Between 1968 and 1990 it was the sole legal party. History The party was established as the Gabonese Dem ...

(PDG). Myboto ran as an independent in the November 2005 presidential elections as the UGDD was not legalized prior to the election) in the

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held on 27 November 2005. He finished third out of five candidates with 6.58% of the vote. The UGDD was legally recognized by the Ministry of the Interior on 27 April 2006.Zacharie Myboto
GFC Parliamentary Group website In the 2006 parliamentary elections the party won 4 of the 120 seats in the

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. It subsequently joined the Parliamentary Group of the Forces of Change. In the April 2008 local elections the UGDD won 161 seats across the country. Two members of the UGDD— Sylvestre Ratanga, the party's Secretary-General, and Paul Boundoukou Lata—were appointed ministers on 14 January 2009. Myboto said that, by accepting positions in the government, they had excluded themselves from the UGDD."Gabon: Politique : “Deux dissidents” de l’UGDD effectuent leur entrée au sein du gouvernement d’ouverture"
AGP (bdpgabon.org), 15 January 2009 In 2010 the party merged with the

African Development Movement The African Development Movement (french: Mouvement Africain de Développement, MAD) was a political party in Gabon led by Pierre Claver Zeng Ebome. History The MAD contested the 2001 parliamentary elections, winning one of the 120 seats in the ...

and the National Republican Rally to form the National Union.Gabonese opposition forms new party
IOL, 10 February 2010

References

Defunct political parties in Gabon Political parties established in 2005 2005 establishments in Gabon Political parties disestablished in 2010 2010 disestablishments in Gabon {{Africa-party-stub