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Parties leave opposition coalition

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    Meanwhile, two political parties have withdrawn from UFAP, news agencies said. The withdrawal of former prime minister Enoch-Derant Lakoue’s PSP and veteran opposition leader Abel Goumba’s Front patriotique pour le progres (FPP) means UFAP is now composed essentially of former president Andre Kolingba’s RDC and a few smaller parties, Gabonese radio said on 30 October. Lakoue told the radio that his party had decided to leave the coalition because UFAP’s “arrangements” were becoming “increasingly incoherent”. With the end of the elections, “we deemed it advisable to turn over the page and view the future differently”, Lakoue said.

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