Equatorial Guinea's main opposition¹ candidate has said he will not accept the result of Sunday's election because polls were not free and fair.

赤道几内亚主要反对党候选人称。他不会接受星期天的选举结果，因为投票是非自由、非公平的。

President Obiang won 97% of votes in the last election

Placido Mico Abogo claims government agents voted in place of the public and some polling stations closed early.

He is standing² against President Teodor Obiang Nguema, who has been in power for 30 years.

Voting ended with reports of a low turn out. President Obiang Nguema said the day had gone well.

The BBC's correspondent in the region, Caspar Leighton, says the leader of the opposition is not alone in judging the election to be flawed.

The electoral roll will not be published and the country's electoral commission is run by President Obiang Nguema's interior minister（内政部长）.

Media domination

Human rights groups say the vote was unlikely to have been free and fair and President Obiang Nguema is likely to be re-elected.

Government funds have been given to other candidates, but the governing party dominates state media.

President Obiang Nguema won the last election with 97% of the vote and he told supporters he expects to do better this time.

There are some election monitors from the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States, but they have to follow a government programme.

Many foreign journalists have been refused visas to cover the election.

Equatorial Guinea's vast earnings³ from oil and gas should give its population of 600,000 people a theoretical income of $37,000 a year each.

But most Equatorial Guineans live in poverty after 15 years of plentiful⁴ oil production.

'Abusive and corrupt⁵'

The government of President Obiang Nguema has hired American lobbying（游说） companies to burnish⁶（擦亮，磨光） the country's unsavoury（不好的，令人厌恶的） reputation and says it will guarantee an open electoral process.

Human Rights Watch describes Equatorial Guinea's government as one of the most abusive（辱骂的，虐待的） and corrupt in the world.

But international investors⁷ remain firmly attached to the oil and gas wealth of this tiny African nation.

Normally a secretive state, Equatorial Guinea made headlines in October with the pardoning of a group South African and British mercenaries（雇佣兵） headed by Simon Mann who had been jailed for attempting a coup⁸.