Equatorial Guinea President re-elected with 94.9% of the vote
Equatorial Guinea's Malabo - According to the official results made public on Saturday by the National Electoral Commission, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the Head of State of Equatorial Guinea, who has been in office since 1979, was re-elected with a score of 94.9%.
“The National Electoral Commission proclaims the candidate Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea for the next 7 years “, announced Faustino Ndong Esono Eyang, President of the Electoral Commission, who specified that the participation rate stood at 98%.
The results of the opposition candidates Bonaventura Monsuy Asumu of the Social Democratic Coalition Party (PCSD) and Andrés Esono Ondo of Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), the only opposition party that is not outlawed, were not made public. In one of the most closed and totalitarian governments in the world, where the opposition is suppressed and muzzled, they received 9,684 and 2,855 votes, respectively.
In addition to winning the concurrent parliamentary and municipal elections, which were contested for 100 deputies and 55 senatorial seats, the all-powerful Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (DPEG) and its alliance also won the presidential election. The DPEG got one deputy and had 99 members in the last National Assembly.
Out of the 1.4 million people living there, 427,661 people were registered to vote in this little oil-rich nation in Central Africa that is ruled with an iron fist by Mr. Obiang, who holds the record for the longest tenure of any head of state, except monarchs.