The Diplomat
The Popular Group in the Congress of Deputies has submitted a question to the Government to find out if it shares the statements made by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and current UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, on the cleanliness of the recent elections held in Equatorial Guinea.
The question, signed by MEPs Valentina Martínez Ferro, Pablo Hispán and José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, refers to statements made by Moratinos on Equatorial Guinea Television on 22 October, in which he congratulated Equatorial Guinea on holding ‘free and democratic elections’, after President Teodoro Obiang’s party won with 99% of the votes.
Specifically, the MPs want to know whether the government considers the elections to have been “free and democratic”, as the High Representative of the Alliance of Civilisations claims, and whether the government shares “the congratulations made by former minister Moratinos to the world’s longest-serving dictator”.
