Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea has won his re-election bid for a sixth term as president of the sprawling West African country.
Reports say that Obiang received 94.9% of the votes cast, election officials announced on Saturday, putting turnout for the vote at 98%.
Conservatively, the two 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.
By this victory, the 80-year-old who has been in power for 43 years — the longest rule of any leader alive in the world today except monarchs— will be there for longer time.
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Meanwhile, Obiang’s ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) also won all seats in the National Assembly and the Senate.
