Equatorial Guinea accused on Sunday, Spain, France and the United States of “interfering” in the presidential and legislative elections scheduled in November in this small country in Central Africa and led by Tudoro Obiang Najouma Mbasogo for more than 43 years.
Malabu criticises the three nations for sending diplomats to one of the two authorised opposition movements’ election gathering but for being “weak” in the face of the “Democratic Party,” which is led by President Opiang.
The latter is the leader who has been in power for the longest period in the world – with the exception of kings – and seeks a sixth term at the age of eighty.
In the outgoing national association, his party controls 99 of the 100 seats, and it also holds all 55 seats in the Senate.
A meeting of the opposition movement, “The Alliance for Democratic Socialism,” was attended by diplomats from Spain, France, and the United States, according to images released by the authorities. The latter organisation stated that they had invited all embassies in Malabu.
On the little nation in the Gulf of Guinea with its abundant oil and gas that gained independence from Spain in 1968, the campaign for the presidential elections, the National Assembly, the Senate, and the Municipal Council began on Thursday.
By receiving 93.7% of the vote in 2016, Tudoro Obiang was re-elected.
On November 20, the President will face Andres Esuno Ando of the “Alliance for Democratic Socialism”, and Buevintora Monsoy Asumo, the candidate of the “Social Democratic Alliance”, which formed a coalition with the ruling party in the previous elections.
Washington voiced “alarm about reports that talk about arrests and harassment of opposition activists and civic society” in a tweet posted by US State Department spokesman Ned Price on Thursday.
The United States urged Malapo to organize “free and fair elections”, and encouraged power to “strengthen a more integrated, peaceful and democratic society by allowing the expression of various political opinions. “.
Madrid, Paris, and Stephen are accused of “interfering” in Equatorial Guinea’s elections.
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