Tuesday, May 24, 2022
In the interview of the channel Unión Hispano Americana directed by the Valencian Alberto Marigil carried out on May 24, 2022, whose guests were Mr. Carlos Abaga Ayingono, member of the Executive of the Movement of National Alliance for Democratic Restoration (ANRD) and Mr. Ildefonso Abaga Angué, President of the National Freedom Party of Equatorial Guinea, in one of the fragments of 2 minutes 1 second of this interview, Mr. Ildefonso Abaga Angué spoke in the following terms:
(0:00 to 1:10) The one who is fomenting the present of evil in Equatorial Guinea is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, taking into account that he wants to be in the presidency for life as they say here in the United States, President for life. This is what is fomenting all these problems we have in Equatorial Guinea and not only in Equatorial Guinea, the lack of political alternation creates all the problems we have in Africa, because when one arrives in the presidency, well, let’s say with elections or with a coup d’état, what he does is to be there for life (to perpetuate himself in power), he does not think about ceding power, doing a peaceful alternation, to hold free and transparent elections; this is the real problem we have in Africa, the lack of political alternation.
(1:12 to 2:01) Who wants to have a President, let not say for 43 years. I don’t want to have a President in power for 15 years; moreover, a person that no one has voted for. The only elections that have been democratic are the elections of September 22 (first round) and 29 (second round), 1968 and the municipal elections of September 17, 1995, which, evidently, Teodoro lost because he cannot win democratic elections, he cannot. It is the origin of all the problems, the lack of political alternation.