A spokesperson for Angola’s National Electoral Commission (CNE) said today that it had received no complaints from any political exercise within the scope of the results table, stressing that those who come will be appreciated.
“The CNE has not received complaints from any competitor, if they do as usual, the CNE has a legal obligation to evaluate and decide them according to the law. We reiterate that the CNE has no official claim to any political formation”, Lucas Lucas at the end of an extraordinary plenary meeting within the scope of the schedule of the final results of the elections. Quilundo said.
“The CNE is on permanent duty and when it starts counting the results, the sessions will be uninterrupted. The law establishes that the CNE must publish the final results within 15 days,” he added.
According to Lucas Quilundo, it thoroughly considered the state of the reports on the votes requested at the polling stations and the votes settled by the Provincial Electoral Commissions.
“There will be definitive results only when all this information regarding the requisitioned votes is complete”, he added, explaining that the CNE “needs to consult the requisitioned votes” to arrive at a total conclusion. ”.
“Depending on the level of demand votes, it’s always possible that there will be some changes,” he pointed out.
In a proposal to submit UNITA’s decisions to an independent international commission, the CNE said it was a state body and could not operate outside state institutions “according to the order of the law”.
On Friday, the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Adalberto Costa Jr., rejected the provisional results of the CNE, which give victory to the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in Wednesday’s elections.
And he challenged the CNE “in the name of truth” to adopt “the structure of a commission” with international participation, recount the votes and compare the summary minutes held by the CNE with the parties.
As for the commissioners who announced today that they would disassociate themselves from the minutes of the provisional decisions, Lucas Guilundo said that the signing of the minutes meant that “no one forced” the participation of all members of the plenary.
“There are no political commissars in the CNE, they all had free access and equal conditions”, insisted the CNE spokesperson, denying that there were any restrictions condemned today by the four commissioners.
According to data released by the CNE, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA, in power since 1975) received 3,162,801 votes, less than one million votes, when 97.03% of votes were counted in last Wednesday’s election. In 2017, it received 4,115,302 votes.
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) recorded a major increase, electing representatives in 17 of 18 provinces and a historic victory in Luanda, the country’s largest province, with 2,727,885 votes so far in 2017. 1,800,860 favorable newsletters.
However, UNITA’s leader Adalberto Costa Jr. contested the MPLA’s victory on Friday and asked an international commission to compare the party’s election minutes with those of the CNE.
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