43 years as president, who is this?
2022.11.20 08:13
43 years as president, who is this?
Budrigannews.com – Equatorial Guinea will vote in general elections on Sunday, when Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world’s longest-serving president, is expected to extend his 43-year rule at the helm of a small oil producer in West Africa.
More than 400,000 people are registered to vote in a country of about 1.5 million people. Voters also voted to elect 100 delegates, 55 senators and local mayors.
Observers expect no surprises. Obiang, 80, consistently holds more than 90 percent of his votes in polls, and given years of complaints by human rights groups about a lack of political freedoms, international observers question his impartiality. Announced.
He is running for his sixth term with two of his opposition candidates. Buenaventura’s Obiang Monsoy ran as his sixth challenger against his barn, and Ender removes Asono’s runs for the first time and is his ondog.
“There is no tension in the presidential election,” said Maya Bobcon, a senior African analyst.
“The closure of the border and the harassment and detention of opposition supporters paved the way for the extension of Obiang’s 43-year rule,” she said.
In separate statements, the United States and the European Union called for free and fair elections and expressed concern over reports of harassment and intimidation against opposition parties and civil society groups.
The government has denied reports of interference in the election process.
Since independence from Spain in 1968, he has had only two presidents in Equatorial Guinea. Obiang defeated his uncle Francisco Macos Jama in a coup in 1979.
Obiang, who launched his campaign on Friday, said he would delay presidential elections for several months and hold them along with parliamentary and local elections to save money from the economic crisis.
Oil and gas production accounts for about three-quarters of OPEC member states ‘ revenues. However, this has decreased from 160,000 heartbeats in 2015 to about 93,000 heartbeats in recent years.
