Constitutional court recounts Gabon votesA month after a presidential election won by Ali Bongo
Ali Bongo (born 1929) is a British comedy magician who has an act in which he is known as the Shreik of Araby. Bongo's real name is William Wallace, and he was born in India. Ondimba, Gabon's constitutional court on Wednesday began a recount of votes, at the request of several losing candidates. The main opposition candidates, former interior minister Andre Mba Obame, who officially came second with 25.88 percent, and veteran opponent Pierre Mamboundou, who came third with 25.22 percent, both hope that the recount will lead to the annulment annulment Legal invalidation of a marriage. It announces the invalidity of a marriage that was void from its inception. It is to be distinguished from dissolution or divorce. To justify annulment, the marriage contract must have a defect (e.g. of Ali Bongo's election. They each claim to have won the August 30 poll. However, Ali Bongo, the successor to his father, Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died in June after 41 years in power, was proclaimed the winner of the vote with a strong lead of 41.73 percent of votes cast. The recount started in the absence of representatives of the political parties after a difference of opinion between the court and the opposition over who should take part in the exercise. Court president Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo on Tuesday said she wanted each party to send a bailiff bailiff Officer of some U.S. courts whose duties include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation. In medieval Europe, it was a title of some dignity and power, denoting a manorial superintendent or royal agent who collected fines and who could also be its envoy, but several opposition parties wanted to have two representatives attending the recount. When told they could only have one, who would double up as a bailiff, the opposition decided to boycott the recount, Mborantsuo said. In the absence of opposition bailiffs, the court denied Ali Bongo's party the right to a representative. Last week, a court source told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. that the recount would begin during the afternoon and "we are doubtless going to spend all night doing it, it will be long." The court has received 11 requests to annul an·nul tr.v. an·nulled, an·nul·ling, an·nuls 1. To make or declare void or invalid, as a marriage or a law; nullify. 2. the election results, and the decision to go ahead with a recount has been welcomed by the plaintiffs and by representatives of civil society, despite the arguments as to how the recount should be carried out. Court president Mborantsuo has said that it would be "practically a vote count, but this time we will be using the official reports (summing up counted votes) in each polling station." "The official reports of all the polling stations will be studied this time in the presence of bailiffs appointed by the plantiffs," Mborantsuo on Saturday told Radio France Internationale Radio France Internationale (RFI) was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France to serve as a broadcast vehicle for French Equatorial Africa. In 1986 a new law passed by the French Parliament allowed RFI to operate independently of Radio France. (RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) High-frequency electromagnetic waves that emanate from electronic devices such as chips. RFI - Radio Frequency Interference ). 
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