section_path: Coup/Proclamation of Brice Oligui as interim president
section_name: Proclamation of Brice Oligui as interim president
paragraph_text: Proclamation of Brice Oligui as interim president
  
  Brigadier general Brice Oligui, commander of the Republican Guard, was later installed as interim president by the military junta, and was seen on the shoulders of jubilant army personnel calling him the " president ". In an interview with Le Monde, he referred to Bongo as "retired", and said that the military had staged the coup due to discontent that had been growing in the country since Bongo's stroke in 2018, his decision to run for a third term, the disregarding of the country's constitution and the conduct of the election. Oligui promised that the dissolution of state institutions would be only be temporary, pending their reconfiguration into more democratic ones. He also said that the military would move "quickly but surely" to avoid elections that "repeat the same mistakes" by keeping the same people in power.