While the referendum campaign was officially launched on November 6, the parties, movements and political personalities members of the Vision 2025 platform are curiously silent, undoubtedly awaiting a common voting instruction from their leader. , Hervé Patrick Opiangah, who may not arrive. A position that the person concerned half-heartedly denounced, inviting his peers, political leaders, to express a formal opinion on the question of the referendum.
Hervé Patrick Opiangah, leader of the Vision 2025 platform, invites his peers to comment on the question of the constitutional referendum. © GabonReview
It will be “Oui» or «Non» for Vision 2025 during the upcoming constitutional referendum? 12 days before the consultation, the political platform created in view of the presidential, legislative and local elections scheduled for next year has not made a decision. Rather curious thing: none of the 40 members who make it up have expressed their position either. Undoubtedly they are still waiting to have a common position which may not arrive.
However, three days after the official launch of the referendum campaign, Hervé Patrick Opiangah, leader of the said platform does not seem to appreciate this silence. This, especially since time is running out, and the campaign only lasts 10 days. Also, in a press release addressed to them at the start of the weekend, the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Integration (UDIS) invited his peers to take a formal position on the single question of the referendum: Are they, yes or no, in favor of adopting the draft Constitution submitted by the military in power? Wanting to be democratic, he invites each team to choose according to its values, therefore “to take a position according to the orientation of their political formation”while ensuring that you make a choice that “preserves the superior interests of the Nation and [qui, répond] objectively to the deep aspirations of the Gabonese people”.
It must be said that despite internal discussions in recent weeks, the platform has not managed to reach a common position on the subject, hence the latitude given to each member by the general coordinator who claims to be a democrat. . To justify his invitation, Hervé Patrick Opiangah invokes the “exceptional character of this referendum election” which, according to him, must be dissociated from upcoming electoral deadlines. However, he assures, “for the next presidential, legislative and local elections, the platform will give instructions based on the opinion of its members”.
