Equatorial Guinea: World's longest-serving president to continue 43-year-rule - BBC

The world's longest-serving president has won re-election successful Equatorial Guinea to proceed presiding implicit his authoritarian regime.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, secured astir 95% of votes, officials announced six days aft the vote.

"The results beryllium america close again," Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the president's son, said. "We proceed to beryllium a large party."

Some absorption candidates stood, but nary were expected to win.

President Obiang has a beardown grip connected the oil-rich cardinal African nation, with household members successful cardinal authorities roles.

He seized powerfulness successful 1979 aft a subject takeover and has survived respective coup attempts.

Upon gaining bureau from his predecessor and uncle, Francisco Macias Nguema, helium made immoderate reforms but retained Nguema's implicit power implicit the nation.

Political absorption is hardly tolerated and severely hampered by the deficiency of a escaped press, arsenic each broadcast media is either owned outright by the authorities oregon controlled by its allies.

It is thought that President Obiang, who has antecedently denied accusations of quality rights abuses and predetermination rigging, intends to usage his sixth word to cleanable up his planetary reputation.

In September, the authorities abolished the decease penalty, successful a determination which was praised by the United Nations.

Equatorial Guinea has a past of what critics telephone fraudulent predetermination results.

In 1968, Spanish Guinea gained independency and became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea with Francisco Macias Nguema arsenic president.

Rights groups person labelled the country's 2 presidents - Francisco Macias Nguema and Teodoro Obiang Nguema - arsenic immoderate of the worst rights abusers successful Africa.

The Spanish, French and Portuguese-speaking state discovered immense lipid reserves successful 1996, but overmuch of the 1.4 cardinal colonisation has not benefitted from this, with poorness inactive rampant.

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