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How many times has Omar Bongo been reelected?

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He created a one-party state (1968) and was reelected in 1973, 1979, and 1986. Protests forced him to reinstate a multiparty system in 1990. Bongo was reelected in 1993 and 1998 in elections generally regarded as unfair by observers; he triumphed over a divided opposition again in 2005.

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