President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang has won his re-election bid for a sixth term as president, Obiang received 94.9% of the votes cast, election putting turnout for the vote at 98%. The opposing candidates, Andrès Esono Ondo and Buenaventura Monsuy Asumu, each received around 9,700 and 2,900 of the approximately 413,000 votes in Equatorial Guinea.
Members of the international community, including the US government, have raised concerns over the legitimacy of the landslide victory of the president’s PDGE party which claimed 94.9% of the vote, members of the government of the central African country reacted differently to the doubts.
The 80-year-old has been in power for 43 years the longest rule of any leader alive in the world today except monarchs. Obiang’s ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) also won all seats in the National Assembly and the Senate.
