Vicious voting

Coup plot claims, a lucrative oil deal and a plane crash are enlivening the desultory campaigning ahead of parliamentary and municipal elections in Equatorial Guinea due on 4 May. The ruling Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial and its allies already have 98 out of 100 seats in the National Assembly and control the system.

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Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Severo Moto Nsa, Spanish, Saturnino Ncogo Mbomio, United States, Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial, Partido del Progreso

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