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Equatorial Guinea, a small oil state in Central Africa, organized its general elections on Sunday, November 20. There were three candidates including incumbent President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who was seeking a sixth term following 43 years in office. If the day passed in calm and crowds, some malfunctions were observed at the closing of the polling stations.
With our special correspondent in Malabo, Loïcia Martial
A polling station in Santa Maria which waits until 9 p.m. before counting, another in the Timbabé district which votes beyond 6 p.m. or yet another which has fallen behind in the counting… The closing of the vote on Sunday been disorganized, particularly in Malabo.
According to observers, many voters answered present. For example, out of 679 registered in the office of a popular district, 586 fulfilled their civil duty.
José Antonio Ndong, a national observer hailed a flawless vote. ” In the district of Malabo where we worked today, we did not encounter any anomaly in the various polling stations. Everything went normally “, he remarked
An opinion shared by Pilar Rondo Ikaka, representative of Buenaventura Monsuy, one of the three candidates for the presidential one. « Since I took place in this polling station, I noted that all the operations did not know inconveniences. All in all, it went very well “, she testified.
Voting took place in nearly 3,000 offices across the country. The provisional results will be announced at the end of the week by the Electoral Commission, then the Constitutional Court will decide on the validity or not of the vote. In the country, the presidential mandate is 7 years, once morest 5 years for parliamentarians.