# National Electoral Board proclaims Obiang president-elect with 405,910 votes (94.9 percent)

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 26 November 2022 Equatorial Guinea’s National Electoral Board proclaimed [Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo](/people/teodoro-obiang-nguema) president-elect with 405,910 votes after the 20 November poll. Government press stated 94.9 percent of valid votes and 98 percent turnout.

## Context

He ran. The Board tabulated. The United States recorded serious doubts about the credibility of the announced results. Teodorín publicly celebrated the share. He is unresolved.

20 November poll; 26 November proclamation. Stored as one 2022 election Fact. Keep National Electoral Board proclaims Obiang president-elect with 405,910 votes (94.9 percent) on 2022-11-26 separate from neighbouring Obiang instruments.

The president of Equatorial Guinea is head of state and commander-in-chief. He does not sit as a Paris correctional judge, a US district-court clerk, or a Cour de cassation panel. He was not the named defendant in the US settlement or the French biens-mal-acquis judgments; his son was.

## Evidence and sources

Oficina de Información y Prensa de Guinea Ecuatorial carries the official instrument or communique. RFI records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed 94.9 percent certification in a personalist oil republic.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Board proclaimed 405,910 votes on 26 November 2022; government press stated 94.9 percent.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Board tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National Electoral Board proclaims Obiang president-elect with 405,910 votes (94.9 percent), not a later speech about National Electoral Board proclaims Obiang president-elect with 405,910 votes (94.9 percent).

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. National Electoral Board proclaims Obiang president-elect with 405,910 votes (94.9 percent) on 2022-11-26 is not a licence to treat every later Oficina de Información y Prensa de Guinea Ecuatorial communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average National Electoral Board proclaims Obiang president-elect with 405,910 votes (94.9 percent) into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was proclaimed. The Board tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: https://factrail.ai/people/teodoro-obiang-nguema

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space
- Obiang resource kleptocracy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/obiang-resource-kleptocracy
- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20221127-obiang-confirmed-for-sixth-term-as-president-of-equatorial-guinea
- https://www.guineaecuatorialpress.com/noticias/s_e_obiang_nguema_mbasogo_proclamado_presidente_electo_de_guinea_ecuatorial

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gq-election-2022