Léon Mbou Yembi

Léon Mbou Yembi (born 15 January 1946) is a Gabonese politician. He is the President of the African Forum for Reconstruction (FAR), a small, radical opposition party, and has served as a Deputy in the National Assembly of Gabon.

A member of the Vungu ethnic group, Mbou Yembi was born at Ilendo, near Mouila, and received his higher education in France.

Following the introduction of multiparty politics at the beginning of the 1990s, Mbou Yembi was elected to the National Assembly in the 1990 parliamentary election. He was the leader of the Gabonese Socialist Party, which joined with two other parties to create the FAR in early 1992. As a candidate in the December 1993 presidential election, he officially placed eighth with 1.83% of the vote.

In April 2005, Mbou Yembi expressed his hope that the opposition could agree on a single candidate to face President Omar Bongo in the November 2005 presidential election. He also said that there should be no campaigning prior to the start of the official campaign period late in the year and that it was important to ensure that the election would be fair and transparent before campaigning began. As a representative of the opposition, Mbou Yembi was included on the joint majority–opposition commission on the reform of the electoral process, which began its work in May 2006 and included 12 representatives from the Presidential Majority as well as 12 from the opposition.

Mbou Yembi was elected to the National Assembly as the Deputy from Mougalaba Department, located in Ngounié Province, in the December 2006 parliamentary election; he was the only FAR candidate to win a seat in the election. In the National Assembly, he became Vice-President of the Group of the Forces of Change (GFC), a parliamentary group that also includes deputies from the Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development (UGDD) and the Congress for Democracy and Justice (CDJ). Later he left that position, although he remained a member of the GFC Parliamentary Group.

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