Elections in Equatorial Guinea: the opposition hopes to sit in the National Assembly
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Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, November 17: A poster of opposition presidential candidate Andrès Esono Ondo has a portrait of president-candidate Teodoro Obiang Nguema pasted on it.
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Equatorial Guinea is two days away from a triple ballot, presidential, legislative and municipal.
Like the three presidential candidates on Sunday, those in the legislative elections are also in the middle of the campaign.
Voters will renew the 100 seats in the National Assembly.
The political formation of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema and its allies are keen to maintain their majority.
The opposition, she wants to enter to end the stranglehold of the ruling party on Parliament.
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,
Loicia Martial
Shirt, loincloth and cap bearing the image of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang, the son of the Head of State and Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, is a legislative candidate.
He occupied Thursday afternoon, an artery of the Mariacano district for a meeting.
Facing the militants, he says he is ready for victory.
“
We are here because we are promoting the candidacy of our candidate, whom we know, Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Mbasogo) who embodies the development of the country.
He is the person we know, and if today we know Equatorial Guinea, in Africa and in the world it is thanks to him!
»
Another atmosphere elsewhere, at the headquarters of the Convergence Party for Social Democracy (CPDS) of the opponent
Andrès Essono Ondo
.
Sitting at a long table set up in an office, Juan Nzo Ondo, legislative candidate, has another mission.
“
Parliament must be a power independent of the executive power.
Until then, we at the CPDS (opposition) see that Parliament is functioning according to the will of President Obiang.
What it says is what Parliament does!
Teodoro Obiang, in power for 43 years,
is seeking a sixth consecutive term.
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Of the 100 elected members of the outgoing assembly, elected in 2017, only one came from the opposition.
But he never sat: his political party,
Ciudadanos por la inovacion
(CI) having been dissolved in February 2018. He now lives in exile.
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