Equatorial Guinea ruling party wins 99% of votes in early results

Eighty-year-old President Teodoro Obiang, the world’s longest-ruling head of state, is searching for to increase his 43 years in workplace.

Equatorial Guinea electoral candidate and incumbent President Teodoro Obiang Nguema (centre) and his spouse Constancia Mangue (left) arrive at a polling station in April 2016 in Malabo throughout a presidential election vote [AFP]

Preliminary election outcomes launched by Equatorial Guinea’s authorities on Monday confirmed the ruling celebration profitable over 99 p.c of votes counted to this point in presidential, legislative, and municipal elections held on Sunday, November 20.

The tiny oil-producing Central African state is run by 80-year-old President Teodoro Obiang, the world’s longest-ruling head of state, who's searching for to increase his 43 years in workplace.

Equatorial Guinea has had solely two presidents since independence from Spain in 1968; Obiang and his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema, who he eliminated in a coup in 1979.

This time, two opposition candidates are standing in the way in which of a sixth time period for the president: Buenaventura Monsuy Asumu, who has run within the earlier 5 elections, and Andrés Esono Ondo, who's working for the primary time.

Early partial outcomes confirmed Obiang’s ruling Democratic Celebration of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) and coalition with 67,012 votes out of 67,196 counted to this point. The depend will proceed on Monday, stated a press release on the federal government web site.

Greater than 400,000 individuals registered to vote within the nation of about 1.5 million, which is cut up between the island of Bioko within the Gulf of Guinea and a coastal mainland sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon.