Editing Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea

{{short description|Political party in Equatorial Guinea}}
{{Infobox political party
| name          = Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea
| native_name   = Partido del Progreso de Guinea Ecuatorial
| colorcode     = {{party color|Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea}}
| logo          = Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea logo.png
| abbreviation  = PPGE
| leader1_title = President
| leader1_name  = [[Severo Moto Nsá]]
| foundation    = {{start date|1983|2|25|df=y}}
| legalised     = 1992
| headquarters  = [[Madrid]], Spain
| ideology      = {{nowrap|[[Liberal democracy]]<br/>[[Economic liberalism]]}}
| position      = [[Centre-right politics|Centre-right]]
| international = [[Centrist Democrat International]]
| colours       = {{color box|border=darkgray|{{party color|Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea}}}} [[Green]] {{color box|border=darkgray|#FFFFFF}} [[White]]
| seats1_title  = [[Chamber of Deputies (Equatorial Guinea)|Chamber of Deputies]]
| seats1        = {{Composition bar|0|100|{{party color|Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea}}}}
| seats2_title  = [[Senate (Equatorial Guinea)|Senate]]
| seats2        = {{Composition bar|0|70|{{party color|Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea}}}}
| website       = {{URL|partidodelprogreso.org}}
| country       = Equatorial Guinea
}}
The '''Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea''' ({{langx|es|Partido del Progreso de Guinea Ecuatorial}}) is a pro-market, pro-democracy political party in [[Equatorial Guinea]].  It was founded in [[Madrid]] in 1983 by [[Severo Moto]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lansford |first1=Tom |title=Political Handbook of the World |date=2013 |publisher=CQ Press |location=Washington, DC |isbn=978-1-4522-5824-9 |page=445}}</ref>

The party leadership has declared a "[[government in exile]]" in [[Spain]], with party leader [[Severo Moto]] as "President". PP members who remain in Equatorial Guinea are heavily harassed and prosecuted.

In 2008, seven PPGE members were arrested in [[Malobo]] on charges of weapons possession, including Moto's former secretary [[Gerardo Angüe Mangue]]. The alleged owner of the weapons, Saturnino Ncogo, had died in prison within days of his arrest under suspicious circumstances. Authorities alleged he had thrown himself from the top bunk of his cell to commit suicide, but relatives received his body in an advanced state of decomposition, and no investigation was ever conducted.<ref name="AI1">{{cite web|url=http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/africa/equatorial-guinea|title=Equatorial Guinea|publisher=[[Amnesty International]]|access-date=19 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217101806/http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/africa/equatorial-guinea|archive-date=17 December 2010}}</ref> The remaining six PPGE activists—Mangue, [[Cruz Obiang Ebele]], [[Emiliano Esono Michá]], [[Juan Ecomo Ndong]], [[Gumersindo Ramírez Faustino]], and Bonifacio Nguema Ndong—were tried alongside [[Simon Mann]], a UK national who had helped to organize a [[2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt|2004 coup attempt]], despite their charges being wholly unrelated. The party members were given sentences of one to five years' imprisonment apiece.<ref name="AI1" /> Their imprisonment has been protested by the [[US State Department]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/160119.pdf |title=Equatorial Guinea |author= |date= |publisher=[[US State Department]] |access-date=19 January 2012}}</ref> and [[Amnesty International]], the latter of which named the six men [[prisoners of conscience]].<ref name="AI1" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070807073809/http://club.telepolis.com/ppge/ Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea]
*[http://www.guinea-ecuatorial.org Equatorial Guinea Government in Exile]

{{Equatorial Guinean political parties}}

[[Category:Political parties in Equatorial Guinea]]
[[Category:Banned political parties]]
[[Category:Governments in exile|Equatorial Guinea]]
[[Category:Christian democratic parties in Africa]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1983]]


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