Everything about The Democratic Party Of Equatorial Guinea totally explained
The
Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (
Spanish:
Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial, PDGE) is the ruling
political party in
Equatorial Guinea. It was established by President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as the country's sole legal political organization on
11 October 1987. The current Secretary-General is
Agustín Nze Nfumu.
Despite the legalization of opposition parties in
1991, the PDGE has been the dominant party since its inception and this situation is unlikely to change in the near future. In the 2004 parliamentary elections, 98 of 100 seats were won by either PDGE members or "opposition" parties that support Obiang. In presidential elections, Obiang typically wins 95-99% of the vote, with the opposition regularly calling for boycotts.
The party has an extremely narrow base, which is the
Esangui clan of the
Fang tribe, located in the
Mongomo region of
Río Muni. Since independence in
1968, Equatorial Guinea has been ruled by a single family; the first president,
Francisco Macías Nguema, was overthrown by his nephew, Obiang, in
1979. The party has been criticized for acting in a very authoritarian manner and teaming up with the government to inform on political dissidents. The party is considered by the vast majority of international observers to be corrupt.
Stances
The PDGE has little in the way of a platform or guiding ideology, aside from encouraging foreign investment in the oil sector. Some of the few other tenets of the PDGE are
militarism and anti-separatism (which often amounts to Fang chauvinism). Although almost all the highest placed political appointments are held by former soldiers, the core military force-the army-remains somewhat underfunded in favour of naval and air-force maintenance. Government expenditures are equal to less than 10% of GDP, with military expenditures accounting for roughly 25-35% of that figure. The amount of the budget spent on schooling, healthcare and other such investments is in proximity to the military budget. The single largest expense for the party is economic drives. The constitution guarantees that the government will have a monopoly in certain industries, although much has been done to
privatise these industries, in similar fashion to the way oil drilling was privatised. The party also has a minister for women, and has in recent years pursued a female empowerment agenda.
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