The world’s longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang, who is 80 years old, wants to prolong his 43-year term in office.
The incumbent party in Equatorial Guinea won more than 99 percent of the votes that have been tabulated so far in the presidential, legislative, and municipal elections that were held on Sunday, November 20.
The world’s longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang, 80, of the tiny oil-producing Central African state, is looking to extend his 43 years in power.
Since gaining independence from Spain in 1968, Equatorial Guinea has only had two presidents: Obiang and his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema, who he overthrew in a coup in 1979.
