Quebec TV prankster Jean-Rene Dufort is seen in this 2005 file photo. Dufort voted in last weekend's ADQ leadership race, using the name of dead Gabonese dictator Omar Bongo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)

QUEBEC - Dead Gabonese dictator Omar Bongo is drumming up renewed interest in the recent Action democratique du Quebec leadership race.

A well-known Quebec TV prankster voted by telephone under the name of Bongo, the president of Gabon who died last June.

Gillles Taillon won the ADQ race last weekend, defeating runner-up Eric Caire by two votes.

So, take away Bongo's vote for Taillon and the margin of victory becomes even slimmer.

But Caire said Friday he has no intention of demanding a recount after it was revealed that Jean-Rene Dufort - better-known in Quebec as Infoman - had voted under the African alias.

Dufort's success came after ADQ election officials nixed his attempts to vote as late French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and as Andree Boucher, the late Quebec City mayor.