Politics of Equatorial Guinea Political parties in Equatorial Guinea Elections in Equatorial Guinea File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The 1982 constitution of Equatorial Guinea gives the President extensive powers, including naming and dismissing members of the cabinet, making laws by decree, dissolving the Chamber of Representatives, negotiating and ratifying treaties and calling legislative elections. ... Political parties in Equatorial Guinea lists political parties in this country. ... Politics of Equatorial Guinea Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Equatorial Guinea ...
Convergence for Social Democracy (Spanish: Convergencia para la Democracia Social, CpDS) is the only major opposition party in Equatorial Guinea. In the 2004 elections, it sent two members to the 100-member parliament.
The CpDS is led by a Secretary-General, who is currently Plácido Micó Abogo. The party's candidate in the December 2002 presidential election was Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé Obiang, who won 2.2% of the vote compared to 97.1% for President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea. Opposition parties decided to boycott the elections after incidents of alleged fraud and intimidation. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979. ... The Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial, PDGE) is the ruling political party in Equatorial Guinea. ...
Although the Convergence is a legally recognized party, its members are regularly detained and/or tortured by police.
The CpDS publishes a newsletter called La Verdad ("The Truth").
Socialdemocracy differs from socialism because it is committed to preservation of a largely capitalist and free market economy, but shares with it an emphasis on the importance of redistribution of wealth and income so that citizens may have social and economic conditions that effectively provide for reasonable equality of opportunity.
Socialdemocracy is an assertion of citizens' rights: the entitlement of all citizens, by reason of citizenship, to share equally in the standards of living which a particular society is technically capable of generating.
Social democratic parties entered hard times after 1973 when the long postwar boom was succeeded by decades of lower rates of economic growth and higher rates of inflation and unemployment.
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