Equatorial Guinea President re-elected

Malabo, The Gulf Observer: Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago secured a landslide win in November 20 elections, extending his 43-year rule of the tiny oil-rich central African nation.

Obiang won another seven-year term, garnering 95% of the vote, the country’s vice president and the son of the president, Teodoro Obiang Mangue, said Saturday on Twitter. Voter participation was 98%, according to a statement on the government website. 

The other candidates — Andres Esono Ondo of the Convergence for Social Democracy party and Buenaventura Monsuy Asumu of the Party of Social Democratic Coalition Party — got 2.3% and 0.7% of the votes, respectively. 

The 80-year-old Obiang has won more than 90% of the vote in every election held since he seized power from his uncle in 1979, and 80% of the population has known no other leader.