List of presidents of Equatorial Guinea

The president of Equatorial Guinea is the head of state of Equatorial Guinea, a country in the Gulf of Guinea. The president has formal presidency over the Council of Ministers and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Equatorial Guinea. Francisco Macías Nguema was the first person to hold the office, taking effect on 12 October 1968. The incumbent is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, having taken office on 3 August 1979.

President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Presidente de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial (Spanish) Président de la République de Guinée-Équatoriale (French) Presidente da República da Guiné Equatorial (Portuguese)
Coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea
Incumbent Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo since 12 October 1982[a]
Executive branch of the Government of Equatorial Guinea
Type	Head of state Commander-in-chief
Residence	Malabo Government Building
Term length	Seven years, renewable once
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Equatorial Guinea (1991)
Precursor	Governor of Spanish Guinea
Formation	12 October 1968; 56 years ago (1968-10-12)
First holder	Francisco Macías Nguema
Deputy	Vice President
Salary	93,139,380 Central African CFA francs/152,680 USD annually[1]
Website	Official website

Term limits

As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Equatorial Guinea. The term limit has not been met by any president yet.^[2]

List of officeholders

Political parties

  Popular Idea of Equatorial Guinea (IPGE)

  United National Workers' Party (PUNT)

  Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE)

Other factions

  Military

  Independent

Symbols

^C Constitutional referendum

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Political party
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Francisco Macías Nguema (1924–1979)[b]	1968	12 October 1968	3 August 1979 (Deposed in a coup[c])	10 years, 295 days	IPGE (until 1970)
			1973 [C]				PUNT
—		Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo[d] (born 1942) Chairman of the SMC from 1979 to 1982	—	3 August 1979	Incumbent	46 years, 3 days	Military (until 1982)
2			1982 [C]				Independent (until 1987)
			1989 1996 2002 2009 2016 2022				PDGE

Timeline

Latest election

Main article: 2022 Equatorial Guinean general election

The government announced on 26 November 2022 that Obiang had won the election by an overwhelming margin, as expected. It stated that provisional results showed him with 97% of the vote on a turnout of 98%. The official numbers included a few mistakes including the total electorate or the number of valid votes.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea	405,910	97.00
	Andrés Esono Ondó [es]	Convergence for Social Democracy	9,684	2.31
	Buenaventura Monsuy Asumu [es]	Party of the Social Democratic Coalition	2,855	0.68
Total			418,449	100.00
Valid votes			418,449	99.50
Invalid votes			1,278	0.30
Blank votes			804	0.19
Total votes			420,531	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			427,671	98.33
Source: Government of Equatorial Guinea

See also

• Politics of Equatorial Guinea
• Vice President of Equatorial Guinea
• List of prime ministers of Equatorial Guinea
• List of colonial governors of Spanish Guinea

Notes

1. As Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council from 3 until 25 August 1979 and then as Chairman of the Supreme Military Council until 12 October 1982.
2. Changed name to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong in 1976 due to the policy of Africanization.
3. Executed by firing squad on 29 September 1979.
4. Nephew of Francisco Macías Nguema.