The Bubi Union () was a socio-political group and later a political party in Equatorial Guinea, created to represent the interests of the Bubi people of the island of Bioko.
History Constitutional Conference It was created for the participation in the (1967–1968) that drafted the 1968 Constitution of Equatorial Guinea. Its representatives were Mariano Ganet, Teófilo Bieveda, Gaspar Copariate Muebaque (the latter two were also members of Monalige) and Francisco Douga Mendo (former Secretary General of Monalige in Fernando Poo).
Its intention was the incorporation of the island of Fernando Poo into Spain, or failing that, an administration for the island different from that of Río Muni. El Laberinto Guineano. Escrito por Emiliano Buale Barikó, páginas 87, 88 y 89. Conflictos étnicos y gobernabilidad: Guinea Ecuatorial. Escrito por Muakuku Rondo Igambo, páginas 75, 76 y 77.
1968 elections and entry into government Transformed into a political party, in the 1968 general elections, its leader, Edmundo Bossio, obtained 5,000 votes (5.5%) in the first round for his candidacy as president, and 7 deputies in the National Assembly.Elections in Equatorial Guinea African Elections Database For the second round of the presidential election, he gave his support to Francisco Macías Nguema, who was running through the Popular Idea of Equatorial Guinea (IPGE) party.
Other important names were that of , a disciple of Gregorio Marañón at the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctor at the Banapá seminary, who was one of the seven deputies of the Bubi Union in the National Assembly, and that of , who had participated as vice-president of the General Assembly at the Constitutional Conference (1967–1968), showing himself to be against the unified independence of the Bubi and Fang peoples, Guinea Ecuatorial: El pensamiento socio-político del pueblo bubi , Gerardo Behori Sipi Botau, 2009. La España por venir: Una interpretación histórica de España, Miguel Argaya Roca and who advocated for the approval of the 1968 Constitution of Equatorial Guinea in the 1968 constitutional referendum. Diario La Vanguardia. Edición del sábado, 3 de agosto de 1968, página 5
Dissolution Following the independence of Equatorial Guinea and the diplomatic crisis with Spain, its leaders were persecuted; Enrique Gori was tried and executed in June 1972, and Gustavo Watson also died in 1972. Edmundo Bossio was investigated by the Equatorial Guinean intelligence services in late 1974. He was placed under house arrest and murdered under the dictatorship of Francisco Macías in February 1975.
See also Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island Democratic Fernandino Union
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