Florencio Mayé Elá

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This name uses Fang people from Equatorial Guinea naming customs: his surname is Mayé, his father's surname is Elá and his mother's surname is Mangue. The surnames are chosen by their respective parents.
Florencio Mayé
Mayé in 1983
Born
Florencio Mayé Elá Mangue

1944 (age 79–80)
Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea
Occupation(s)Military leader, politician, diplomat

Florencio Mayé Elá Mangue (born 1944)

Equatoguinean
military leader, politician, and diplomat.

Biography

In the 1960s, Mayé had military training at the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, Spain,[2] along with Teodoro Obiang, Eulogio Oyó, and other future leaders.

Under the dictatorship of Francisco Macías, Mayé was head of the National Navy. He participated in the coup of 3 August 1979, and in the subsequent government of the Supreme Military Council[3][4][5] as Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs,[6] participating in the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Spain and Equatorial Guinea of 1980.[7] He was decorated in Spain with the Order of Isabella the Catholic, along with Salvador Elá Nseng and Juan Manuel Tray.[8]

Under the regime of Teodoro Obiang, Mayé served as ambassador to the UN from December 1982 to December 1987,[9] and to Cameroon beginning in December 2006.[10][11] In September 2008 he was involved in the kidnapping of the political refugee Cipriano Nguema Mba [es] in Cameroon,[12] for which the country declared Mayé persona non grata. Due to this he had to leave office,[11] and was succeeded by Pedro Elá Nguema Buna.[10]

In the

2013 legislative elections, Mayé was elected senator representing the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE).[13][14] He is part of the Permanent Commission of Foreign Policy, International Cooperation, and Integration, and of the Permanent Commission of Defense and State Security.[15]

Personal life

Mayé's daughter is married and has children with

Teodoro Obiang's son Gabriel Mbega.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Foreign ministers E-K".
  2. ^ Mengue, Clarence (2014). El contexto colonial y poscolonial en la narrativa Hispano-Guineana [The Colonial and Post-Colonial Context in the Hispano-Guinean Narrative] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). University of Alcalá. p. 276. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Florencio Maye está siendo investigado por el Gobierno" [Florencio Maye is Being Investigated by the Government]. Diario Rombe (in Spanish). 8 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  4. ^ Miguez, Alberto (25 October 1980). "El Gobierno español considera superada la 'etapa de emergencia' en Guinea" [The Spanish Government Considers the 'Emergency Stage' in Guinea Surpassed]. ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 12. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  5. ^ Fraguas, Rafael (23 September 1979). "Sorpresa en Guinea Ecuatorial por la presencia de un contingente militar marroquí" [Surprise in Equatorial Guinea Due to the Presence of a Moroccan Military Contingent]. El País (in Spanish). Malabo. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  6. ^ "El tigre, cazado" [The Tiger, Hunted] (in Spanish). ASODEGUE. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Tratado de 23 de octubre de 1980 de Amistad y Cooperación entre el Reino de España y la República de Guinea Ecuatorial, hecha en Madrid, y dos Cartas Anejas" [Treaty of 23 October 1980 on Friendship and Cooperation between the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Made in Madrid, and two Cartas Anejas]. Noticias Juridicas (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Real decreto 2853/1979" [Royal Decree 2853/1979] (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (310). 27 December 1979. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Formers Ambassadors". ge-nyonu.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Cameroun: de Nouveaux Ambassadeurs au Palais de l'Unite" [Cameroon: New Ambassadors in the Palace of Unity]. Yaoundeinfos.com (in French). 14 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  11. ^ a b Belibi, Jean Francis (9 September 2009). "Florencio Maye Ela Mangue persona non grata au Cameroun". bonaberi.com (in French). Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  12. ^ "Hojas informativas" [Information Sheets] (in Spanish). ASODEGUE. 17 September 2009. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  13. ^ "Relación completa de Senadores y Diputados" [Complete List of Senators and Deputies]. Diario Rombe (in Spanish). 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  14. ^ "Relacion de los senadores electos, designados y natos respectivamente, por orden alfabético" [List of Elected Senators in Alphabetical Order] (PDF) (in Spanish). Malabo: Ministry of the Interior and Local Corporations of Equatorial Guinea. 27 June 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  15. ^ "Florencio Maye Ela" (in Spanish). Senate of Equatorial Guinea. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  16. ^ "Florencio Maye está siendo investigado por el Gobierno". Diario Rombe (in Spanish). 8 October 2013. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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