{"id":78881,"date":"2016-09-28T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T02:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/gabon-uk-notes-verdict-of-the-constitutional-court\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T04:23:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T02:23:01","slug":"gabon-uk-notes-verdict-of-the-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gabon-uk-notes-verdict-of-the-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon: UK notes verdict of the Constitutional Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/gabon-uk-notes-verdict-of-the-constitutional-court?lang=en\">Gabon: UK notes verdict of the Constitutional Court<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom notes the verdict of the Gabonese Constitutional Court in confirming the victory of Ali Bongo Ondimba in last month&rsquo;s Presidential election. We welcome the decision to use legal channels to address the dispute.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom further notes the comments by the European Union&rsquo;s Election Observation Mission to Gabon highlighting areas of concern and regretting that the Constitutional Court of Gabon &ldquo;had been unable to satisfactorily rectify anomalies observed during the count&rdquo;. We continue to urge all sides to respect democratic norms and practices and emphasise the particular responsibility of the government to ensure transparency in order to create an environment of trust.<\/p>\n<p>In the interests of the stability of Gabon, it is vital that all parties continue to exercise restraint and refrain from provocative rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p> <i>Distributed by APO on behalf of British High Commission Yaounde.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/c46179b744f0e6d\/200\/70\" alt=\"British High Commission Yaounde\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/gabon-uk-notes-verdict-of-the-constitutional-court?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon: UK notes verdict of the Constitutional Court: The United Kingdom notes the verdict of the Gabonese Constitutional Court in confirming the victory of Ali Bongo Ondimba in last month&rsquo;s Presidential election. We welcome the decision to use legal channels to address the dispute. The United Kingdom further notes the comments by the European Union&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[11659,2312,19578,19918,6879],"class_list":{"0":"post-78881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-constitutional","8":"tag-court","9":"tag-gabon","10":"tag-notes","11":"tag-verdict","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}