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LUANDA. – Most votes in Angola’s parliamentary elections have been counted and provisional results show that the ruling MPLA party is ahead with a 52 percent majority, while their main opposition rivals have 42 percent.
The election commission said on yesterday that 86 percent of ballots had so far been counted, which suggested that the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) was likely to extend its near five-decade stint in power — giving President Joao Lourenço a second five-year term. The MPLA has been led since 2017 by President Joao Lourenco.
CNE said the opposition UNITA, which is led by Adalberto Costa Junior, received 33,85 percent, however, UNITA said the initial count was not reliable.
Since independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola has been run by the MPLA
Abel Chivukuvuku, UNITA’s vice-president, dismissed the provisional results and said the party would publish its own based on a parallel vote count using the same data as the CNE. – Al Jazeera
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