After UNITA said it did not recognize the MPLA’s victory and the re-election of João Lourenço in Wednesday’s elections in Angola, the National Elections Committee acknowledged that it was “always possible” that the final results did not match those already in place. Announce – Provisional voting results based on 97.03% of the vote. The CNE spokesperson’s comments come hours after UNITA members who are part of the committee demarcated themselves from the results that had already been announced.
“It is always possible, depending on the magnitude of the alleged vote count, that some changes may occur in the schedule,” CNE spokesperson Lucas Quilondo admitted at a press conference on Saturday. The spokesperson noted that “the constituencies are not closed because they are only closed with the final results”: the terminology is vague but the tone indicates differences from the usual language of CNE officials, who are always very categorical. and who “still don’t. You have no official complaints from any competitor regarding the results”.
“We are moving away from all actions aimed at undermining the law and the law, threatening the seriousness of the electoral process and threatening the sovereign will of the electorate,” he told reporters in Luanda. Commissioner Maria Pascual, representative of the largest opposition party in the National Electoral Council. UNITA members of the National Electoral Council also denounced “persistent violations of the law” that the commission refers to in the process. For all these reasons, they argue, the National Electoral Council “must have an accurate idea of its responsibilities and the role the constitution reserves for it.”
On Friday, flanked by a UNITA vice-presidential candidate, Abel Chivukovouko, and for the party’s “number 3”, Filomeno Vieira-López and Adalberto Costa Jr. have ensured that between the CNE numbers and the UNITA number, in the end, there are “brutal” contradictions. “There is no doubt in saying that The MPLA did not win the elections August 24,” UNITA chief and candidate to succeed the president, Joao Lourenço, said.
According to the results already announced by the National Electoral Council, the MPLA (in power since 1975) won 51.07% and 124 seats, while UNITA collected 44.05% and elected 90 deputies (three smaller formations elected the remaining six deputies).
To support UNITA’s refusal to accept the data already known, the opposition leader provided several examples of very significant discrepancies.
In the province of Luanda (where the National Electoral Council attributes the victory to UNITA), with 99.9% of the minutes, UNITA found it had received 187,234 more votes than was officially declared (in total, the party’s official count gives 1,230,213 votes and a parallel 1,417,447). In this case, the difference would be enough to change the number of deputies elected by the two main Angolan parties.
Meanwhile, the police stopped a number of people who were preparing for a protest march from Largo da Independência to the vicinity of the presidential palace, in Cidade Alta, Luanda, and arrested and beat a number of young people, according to German radio. Deutsche Welle. Largo da Independência, which will be the point of demonstrations in Luanda, is under a police cordon that prevents any citizen from accessing, he says DWThe police disperse all youth gatherings.
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