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• Oct 18, 2011:
• Dec 04, 2009: Equatorial Guinea President Obiang 'wins 95% of vote', BBC News (2009) According to the official results, President Obiang has been re-elected with 95% of the votes cast. The main opposition candidate has already announced that he will not accept the results and many of the human rights groups don't consider the poll free and fair either.
• Dec 01, 2009: Eq Guinea incumbent Obiang wins criticised poll, The New York Times (2009) According to the provisional results of the presidential election, President Obiang Nguema won 96.7% of the vote, just short of his 2002 score of 97.1%.
• Dec 01, 2009: Opposition 'will not accept' Equatorial Guinea election, BBC News (2009) The main opposition candidate that contested in the presidential election claims that the polls were not free and fair, and he will therefore not accept the result. He is joined in his criticism by human rights groups that point out that governing party dominates the media and the electoral commission is run by President Nguema's minister of the interior.
• Nov 27, 2009: Equatorial Guinea's Obiang expects poll landslide, Reuters (2009) Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the President of Equatorial Guinea who has been in power since 1979 coup, expects a landslide victory in Sunday elections, possibly with even a better result than in 2002, when he received 97.1% of votes.