Africa-Press – Angola. Yesterday, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) handed over the mapping of polling stations to representatives of the political formations competing for the August 24 elections, announced the institution’s spokesman.
Lucas Quilundo said that the CNE is scrupulously complying with the Electoral Law, under the terms of article 94 of this diploma, adding that the institution’s commissioners also approved the beginning of the official accreditation of political party list delegates.
“The CNE will ask candidates. Political parties and coalitions to provide a list of operators of political parties who will be given specialized training to be able to operate the electronic equipment that the CNE will make available, so that they proceed with the insertion in the system of the respective voters who wish to be accredited as list delegates”, he underlined.
He referred that the data collected by the elements indicated by the political formations will be downloaded in the respective Municipal Electoral Commissions for the printing of the delegate’s credential.
The CNE also approved the programming schedules for the use of airtime by political parties and the coalition of political parties competing in the elections, following the recent draw. He informed that the institution established that, for the radio, the period of broadcasting time goes from 3 pm onwards and that, under the terms of the law, each candidacy has ten minutes, in a total of eighty minutes (total of all the intervenients).
For television, the airtime period starts at 7 pm and for each application it is five minutes, so you will have forty minutes of free airtime usage in total.
The CNE also appreciated a list containing the names of national organizations that are candidates for election observers. “This list was approved by the plenary, with the exception of a platform, recently published in the media. We are referring to the OBEA, whose accreditation request was not accepted by the National Electoral Commission, due to the lack of legal personality”, said.
Lucas Quilundo pointed out that around 1,700 national observers are planned. The CNE spokesperson said that the Electoral Observation Law establishes that entities interested in carrying out electoral observation must make this request to the National Electoral Commission and that the applicant organizations must be legally constituted so that they can prove their legal personality.
“It is the legal criterion. The law establishes accreditation not by polling station, but by electoral district, with 18 constituencies, considering what the plenary approved in due course. In the specific regulation, each organization can accredit up to 3 observers per electoral districts. . It seems to us that it is a reasonable number”, he added.
The spokesperson informed that the CNE will also accredit international observers and that the Electoral Observation Office is constituted and fully operational. “It is processing requests from various organizations that have requested election observation and those to which the National Electoral Commission has made invitations”, he reinforced.
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