DAKAR (Reuters) – Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been re-elected as the country’s leader with nearly 95% of the vote, his son, the country’s vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, announced on Saturday. on Twitter.
Reuters was unable to immediately verify this claim.
At 80, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo would begin his sixth presidential term after winning, unsurprisingly, the November 20 election.
“The final results prove us right again,” the vice president tweeted. “We continue to prove that we are a great political party!”
This West African oil nation of around 1.5 million people has had only two presidents since gaining independence in 1968. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been in power since 1979, the year of a coup that overthrew his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema.
His son, who observers see as a potential successor, was convicted of embezzlement of public funds by a French court in 2020.
Both father and son have denied any wrongdoing.
(Report Edward McAllister; French version Kate Entringer)
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