Africa-Press – Angola. The Constitutional Court (TC) dismissed the appeal submitted by UNITA, following ruling 994/2025, giving a negative response to the challenge to resolution 118/24 of the National Assembly (AN), which approved the new composition of the National Electoral Commission (CNE).
“UNITA informs that on June 3rd of this year, the presiding judge of the TC sent a notification to the UNITA Parliamentary Group in which she rejected the appeal sent to the plenary of that body, which represents a clear violation of the Constitution and the Civil Procedure Code, and which prevents it from any possibility of granting this process, with such competence falling solely and exclusively to the reporting judge”, reads a statement from the UNITA Parliamentary Group released this Thursday, 17th.
“Considering that the process remains inconclusive, and because the National Assembly’s resolution on the new composition of the CNE clearly violates the principles of the Democratic State and the Rule of Law, based on the rule of law, the UNITA Parliamentary Group resubmitted the appeal on the eve of the 7th Ordinary Plenary Session of the National Assembly where the CNE Commissioners resulting from this resolution are due to take office”, said the largest opposition party in the statement.
The UNITA Parliamentary Group filed, on Wednesday, 16th, a precautionary measure with the Constitutional Court (TC) to suspend the act of inauguration of national electoral commissioners, at the plenary session of the National Assembly, scheduled for this Thursday, 17th July.
In the note to which Novo Jornal had access, it reads that the UNITA Parliamentary Group urges the judges of the Constitutional Court “to act based on the Constitution, doctrine and jurisprudence and not in defense of the interests of a group that may jeopardize the fairness, transparency, integrity and credibility of the body administering the electoral processes and, with that, compromise the future of the country already postponed for 50 years”.
It should be noted that the National Assembly already approved, on June 19, the nominal composition of the commissioners of the MPLA, PRS, FNLA and PHA parties, in the National Electoral Commission (CNE).
The president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, reported at the time that she received a communication from the UNITA Parliamentary Group, which says that, “at any moment”, it will submit the names of the four commissioners to be approved by the National Assembly.
The MPLA appointed Maria Augusta Rodrigues, Manuel Saboneti Camati, Eduardo Magalhães, Cremildo Paca, João Domingos, Miguel Tona Wembo, Maria de Lurdes, Gilberto Saldanha Afonso Neto and Felismina Gando, as its commissioners at the central level of the CNE.
The PRS, FNLA and PHA parties nominated Adriana Chitula, Lucinda Roberto Augusto Costa and Homilda Patrício Quingongo, respectively.
A decision by the National Assembly allocates nine seats to the MPLA, four to UNITA and one representative nominated by each of the other three parties with parliamentary seats, namely the Social Renewal Party (PRS), the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA).
UNITA contested this distribution, claiming that it violated the principles of institutional balance and proportionality, as it considered that the opposition, as a whole, should have greater representation, taking into account its overall electoral expression and not just the number of individual parliamentary seats.
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