Presidential elections were held in Equatorial Guinea on 15 December 2002. Incumbent
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Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (; born 5 June 1942) is an Equatoguinean politician and former military officer who has served as the second president of Equatorial Guinea since August 1979. He is the longest-serving president of any country ev ...
easily won another term amidst an opposition boycott.
Boycotts
The four opposition candidates withdrew their candidacy on election day. The first opposition candidate to withdraw was
Convergence for Social Democracy
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Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé
Celestino Bonifacio Bacale Obiang (24 September 1957 – 2 March 2021) was an Equatoguinean politician. He was the Secretary of International Relations and Cooperation of the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS)."'Landslide' in Equatorial Guinea" BBC News, 16 December 2002.Charles Cobb Jr. "Equatorial Guinea: Obiang Sure to Win As Opposition Quits Poll" allAfrica.com, December 16, 2002. He also said that some designated polling stations did not actually exist, while some polling stations that were not designated had suddenly appeared; he also alleged that secret ballot envelopes were being opened and checked by electoral officials. Furthermore, according to Bacalé, some individuals in charge of polling stations had been deprived of that responsibility due to their insistence on having a free and fair election, and he said that the CPDS would not recognize the results. Despite Bacalé's withdrawal, his name remained on the ballot.
Aside from Bacalé, the other three withdrawn candidates were Secundino Oyono of the
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, an opposition leader in exile, said that there was no chance of a free and fair election.
Conduct
President Obiang's
Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
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(PDGE) said that voting occurred "in a normal and peaceful atmosphere", while Minister of the Interior
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denounced the withdrawal of the opposition candidates as "unlawful ... irresponsible and anti-democratic" and said that it was "proof of heirbad faith and diabolical spirit". The opposition candidates demanded a new election "in the best conditions of freedom, legality and transparency".
One electoral observer, Ahmed Rajab, told the
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that he had not seen "any irregularities as such", although he emphasized that he did not know what had occurred prior to the election and said that there might have been "an element of fear" involved in the support for Obiang. He said that the government was embarrassed by the loss of credibility caused by the opposition withdrawal, which left Obiang as the winner of what was effectively a one-candidate election.
Results
Obiang received 97% of the votes, according to official results. Voter turnout was 98%. At least one voting district was recorded as giving Obiang 103% of the vote, a statistical impossibility without there having been electoral fraud.
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