In Angola, the MPLA is still in charge. The party in power in Angola since independence won the general elections with 51.7 percent of the vote and 124 seats, according to preliminary results released by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) after 97 percent of the ballots had been counted.
While UNITA won with 44.5 percent of the vote and 90 of the 230 seats in the legislature. With little more than 45% of the vote, Lourenço is re-elected as president of the republic.
The main opposition party announced the results of the parallel count it is doing based on the polling place minutes hours before the CNE announcement. The outcomes differ, although UNITA’s total only included a third of the votes.
“We want to hope that there will be common sense, so that we can take the minutes, us and them, look at them one by one, add them up and arrive at the same results, ” said Ruben Sicato from UNITA.
UNITA also complained about the announcement of provisional results by the National Electoral Commission.
“The announcement of provisional results by the cne are being made not based on what the organic law on general elections establishes which denotes that electoral results may be being produced which are not the true ones,” expressedMehaela Webba, another member of UNITA.
For the MPLA, there are no doubts about the winner, but there are conclusions to take from this suffrage.
“We are in a pedagogical process. We are all learning. Some need to learn how to lose and others need to reinforce the way of being in victory. That is what we will try to do. We were open to any result. We won, we won with an absolute majority, we will respect that and we will work for the good of our people,” emphasized Rui Falcao, a member of MPLA.
For the MPLA the match is over but UNITA promises to take the game to extra time. The electoral commission is yet to announce the final results.
