ocr: Despite ofticially being a multiparty state since 1991, some of the several exiledpolitical parties have not yet tound it safe to return - opposition leaders who publicize themselves tend to be arrested. The ruling PDGE was set - up - - in 1987 by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo,nephew oft the dictator Francisco Macias Nguema, whom he overthrew in 1979.1 It replaced Macias' even more notional party, the National Workers' Party (PUNT), which in 1970 had forceda merger ofthe parties existing before independence. The PDGE benetits from heavy government patronage, receiving 3% oft the salaries ofall ...
