 A former presidential candidate in 2016 convicted of undermining state security general Jean-Marie McElmoco has been returned to prison on Friday. On Friday morning the users of the military hospital where the general has been interned for a year noted a strong presence of elements of the gender Marie. They took him away and brought him back to the prison. The government and prison authorities have not yet given any reason for this reinstatement. An unsuccessful candidate in the 2016 presidential election, the result of which he never recognised despite the clear victory of President Denis Sasso and Gueso. General McElmoco was arrested just after the election officially for undermining the internal security of the state and illegal possession of weapons of war. He was then tried and sentenced in 2018 to 20 years of hard labour. Before he was returned to his cell, his lawyers demanded from the authorities a medical report establishing that he had recovered his health and a discharge order from the military hospital.