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Call for 'sex strike' in Gabon if man wins poll


Gabon's men should go on a "sex strike" if a man wins this weekend's presidential poll, an opposition leader said Tuesday, saying the country needs a woman as leader.

"All the men should observe an unlimited sex strike," said Samuel Ntoutoume Ndzeng, calling on the West African West Africa

A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century.



West African adj. & n.
 country's male population to begin their protest on the evening of election day on Sunday "if a man is elected".

"Power must remain with women," said the eccentric Ndzeng, leader of the tiny Gabonese Liberation Movement A liberation movement is a group organizing a rebellion against a colonial power (Anti-imperialism) or seeking separation from a state for parts of the population that feel suppressed by the majority. .

Only three of the 23 candidates to succeed Omar Bongo El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo on 30 December 1935) became President of Gabon in 1967. He was just 31 and the world's youngest president at the time.  Ondimba are women and none are fancied to win, despite a woman, Rose Francine Rogombe, holding the interim presidency since Bongo's death in June Death In June is the musical brainchild of English folk musician Douglas Pearce, better known as Douglas P. Death In June was originally formed in Britain in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1985 to work on other projects, the group became the work of .

But Ndzeng insists: "We will sleep with our clothes on."
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