Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
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Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial | |
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Abbreviation | PDGE |
President | Progressive liberalism |
Political position | Big tent |
Chamber of Deputies | 100 / 100 |
Senate | 70 / 70 |
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President of Equatorial Guinea 1979–present
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The Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial, abbreviated PDGE) is the ruling political party in Equatorial Guinea. It was established by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on 11 October 1987.
Prior to 1991, the PDGE was the
Similarly, Obiang typically wins 95 to 99% of the vote in presidential elections, with the opposition regularly calling for boycotts. In the 2016 presidential election, however, Obiang won around 93% of the vote, a new low for his presidency.
The party has an extremely narrow base, which is the
Stances
The PDGE has little in the way of a platform or guiding ideology other than support for Obiang, although it has sometimes been described as pseudo-populist. One of its few concrete policy stances is support of foreign investment in the oil sector. Some of the few other tenets of the PDGE are militarism and anti-separatism (which often amounts to Fang chauvinism).
The community leaders in all of rural Equatorial Guinea are strongly pressured to be members of the party, and also pressure citizens throughout their communities into joining.
Although almost all the highest placed political appointments are held by former soldiers, the core military force, the Army, remains somewhat underfunded in favour of naval and air-force maintenance. Government expenditures are equal to less than 10% of GDP, with military expenditures accounting for roughly 25-35% of that figure. The amount of the budget spent on schooling, healthcare and other such investments is in proximity to the military budget. The constitution guarantees that the government will have a monopoly in certain industries, although much has been done to
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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1989 | Teodoro Obiang Nguem | 99% | Elected | |
1996 | 179,592 | 97.8% | Elected | |
2002 | 204,367 | 97.1% | Elected | |
2009 | 260,462 | 95.36% | Elected | |
2016 | 271,177 | 92.70% | Elected | |
2022 | 405,910 | 97.00% | Elected |
Chamber of Deputies elections
Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Result |
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1988
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Teodoro Obiang | 99.2% | 60 / 60
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New | 1st | Sole legal party | |
1993
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54,589 | 69.8% | 68 / 80
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8 | 1st | Supermajority government | |
1999
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156,949 | 85.5% | 75 / 80
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7 | 1st | Supermajority government | |
2004
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99,892 | 49.4% | 68 / 100
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7 | 1st | Supermajority government | |
2008
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99 / 100
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31 | 1st | Supermajority government | |||
2013
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99 / 100
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0 | 1st | Supermajority government | |||
2017
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92.00% | 99 / 100
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0 | 1st | Supermajority government | ||
2022 | 100 / 100
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1 | 1st | Supermajority government |
Senate elections
Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Result |
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2013
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Teodoro Obiang | 54 / 70
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54 | 1st | Governing supermajority | ||
2017
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92.00% | 55 / 70
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1 | 1st | Governing supermajority | ||
2022 | 55 / 70
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0 | 1st | Governing supermajority |
Notes
15 members of the Senate are appointed by the President
References
- ^ "Equatorial Guinea country profile". BBC News. 8 May 2018.
- ^ Simon, Allison (11 July 2014). "Equatorial Guinea: One man's fight against dictatorship". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
- ^ "Equatorial Guinea: Ignorance worth fistfuls of dollars". Freedom House. 13 June 2012. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ISBN 978-84-96357-26-6.
- ISBN 978-0-7397-2153-7.
- ^ "We've seen Donald Trump's type of populism in Africa, it always ends in tears". 30 May 2016.
- ^ "Equatorial Guinea: Freedom in the World 2022 Country Report". Freedom House. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
- ^ "Ideología".
- ^ "Guinée équatoriale: le parti présidentiel grand vainqueur des législatives" Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, AFP, May 9, 2008 (in French).
External links
- Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish)