Equatorial Guinea president wins sixth time period in workplace, claims VP

Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has gained re-election with 95% of the November 20 vote and his occasion took all of the senate and parliament seats.

Dakar,UPDATED: Nov 27, 2022 11:47 IST

Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo attends the plenary session of the Paris Peace Forum, France. (File picture/Reuters)

By Reuters: Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has gained re-election with 95% of the Nov. 20 vote and his occasion took all of the senate and parliament seats, his son Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue stated on Twitter on Saturday.

Reuters was not in a position to instantly confirm the declare.

A win would give Obiang, 80, a sixth time period in workplace, extending his 43-year rule and cementing his place because the world’s longest-standing ruler.

“The definitive results prove us right again,” the vice chairman tweeted. “We continue to prove to be a great political party!”

Obiang’s ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) and coalition gained the total 55 seats within the senate and the 100 seats within the decrease home, generally known as the Chamber of Deputies. The president can now appoint the remaining 15 senate seats, his son stated.

The West African nation of round 1.5 million folks has had solely two presidents since independence from Spain in 1968. Obiang ousted his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in a coup in 1979.

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Obiang has at all times been elected with greater than 90% of the vote in polls that worldwide observers have questioned. Critics say Obiang has rigged elections and finished little to pull the nation out of poverty regardless of nice private wealth.

Rights teams accuse him of muzzling dissent and cracking down on rivals. Protests are largely forbidden, media is closely managed, and political opponents are sometimes arrested and tortured, they are saying.

His son, who observers see as a possible successor, was convicted for embezzlement by a French court docket in 2020. Assets that overseas powers say he purchased with ill-gotten positive aspects embrace a crystal-covered glove worn by Michael Jackson, an armoured Rolls-Royce limousine and a yacht.

Father and son have denied wrongdoing.

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Nov 27, 2022