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Equatorial Guinean incumbent President Obiang wins re-election

Xinhua, April 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Equatorial Guinea's incumbent President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has won re-election, provisional results show.

According to the results issued on Thursday by the National Electoral Board, Obiang took 93.7 percent of the vote, comfortably beating six other candidates in the election held on Sunday.

The official turnout figure is about 93 percent.

The Constitutional Court will announce the official result on May 2.

The 73-year-old Obiang toppled his uncle, the then leader Francisco Macias Nguemain, in a coup in August 1979, and was elected president in 1982.

He was then re-elected in 1989, 1996, 2002 and 2009, each time with more than 90 percent of votes cast. Endit