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Equatorial Guinea President To Continue 43-year Rule After Reelection For 6th Term
Equatorial Guinea’s President will continue his 43-year-rule after reelection for a sixth term in office.
Eko Hot Blog reports that President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea on Saturday won a sixth term in office.
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His son, Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, tweeted on Saturday that his father captured victory with 95% of the November 20 election and his party took all the senate and parliament seats.
Los resultados definitivos en el escrutinio nos vuelven a dar la razón. Obiang NGUEMA MBASOGO es reelegido como presidente de Guinea Ecuatorial con 94,9% de los votos, que equivalen a 405.910 votos de la población.
¡Seguimos demostrando ser un Gran Partido Político!— teddy nguema (@teonguema) November 26, 2022
ESCAÑOS OBTENIDOS EN LAS ELECCIONES 2022:
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Cámara de los Diputados-100 escaños
Senado – 55 escaños.
Municipales – 588 Escaños.
Sin duda alguna, hemos hecho una gran campaña, demostrando con hechos que el PDGE es la garantía para el presente y futuro de G.E— teddy nguema (@teonguema) November 26, 2022
The win did not catch observers by surprised as it was much expected in an authoritarian country with next to no political opposition.
Obiang has been in power for 43 years — the longest rule of any elected leader alive in the world today.
The 80-year-old seized power in 1979 after a military takeover and has survived several coup attempts.
Upon gaining office from his predecessor and uncle, Francisco Macias Nguema, he made some reforms but retained Nguema’s absolute control over the nation.
Political opposition is barely tolerated and severely hampered by the lack of a free press, as all broadcast media is either owned outright by the government or controlled by its allies.
During his election campaign in 2009, Obiang promised “social housing for all” in the oil-rich central African state.
Obiang planned to provide enough housing to raise Malabo’s shanty towns, including Nubili, a mass of tin-roofed shacks along narrow paths that is home to thousands of families in the heart of the city.
Since, some 20,000 housing projects have sprung up in the country of around 1.5 million residents, but they seem to be out of the reach of the poor.
Sitting outside his shack in Nubili, 70-year-old Julio Ondo told AFP that none of the housing projects appeared to be for (poor) people like him.
“They’ve made fools of the poor,” he said. “I’ve lost all hope of one day living in dignified housing.”
Most people live in poverty in Equatorial Guinea, the World Bank estimates, while wealth is concentrated in the hands of just a few families.
The country ranked 172 out of 180 in Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index.
During his election campaign at the start of the month, Obiang admitted that social housing intended for “people without great means” had been snapped up instead by “people able to build their own home”.
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But he did not offer a solution, AFP reported.
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