Africa-Press – Angola. The Spanish company Indra says that it was selected to develop and implement the technological and logistical solutions for the general elections of next August for having responded to all the requirements of the public tender promoted by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), open to the submission of proposals from other companies.
In a statement sent to Jornal de Angola, in order, albeit indirectly, to react to some suspicions around its choice, some of which were allegedly for falsifying electoral results, Indra clarifies that its technological solution includes provisional counting and final count of all votes cast in the general election. It is a solution that “guarantees compliance with the transparency and security requirements required by law, which implies the redundancy of computing, transmission, processing and dissemination of results, among many other services.”
Indra adds that assumes the acquisition, transport and delivery of all material necessary for the holding of the general elections.
In another note sent exclusively to Jornal de Angola, Indra says that it does not review any of the accusations against it, “since it has never been sued in any of the countries where it has worked in electoral processes. was sentenced.”
Indra emphasizes the fact that it continues to organize elections in its country of origin. “Just this weekend, for example, it was responsible for the regional elections in Castile and Leon”, he stresses.
Company profile
Indra, it should be recalled, was responsible for the technological solutions for the 2008, 2012 and 2017 general elections, “carried out within the established deadlines, efficiently and with transparency, which made Angola one of the leading countries in the use of state-of-the-art electoral technology”.
The company has more than 40 years of experience in conducting elections around the world, having organized, to date, more than 400 national and international electoral processes, with more than 4,000 million voters involved. Indra offers coverage with its solutions and services to all the needs of the electoral cycle, from the registration of citizens to the capture and dissemination of results on election day, including the final count of votes.
Among the countries where it has organized elections, the United Kingdom, Norway, France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile and Colombia stand out, among others.
According to the note, “the company’s experience guarantees, from the outset, all the organizational and technical capacity necessary to carry out, simultaneously, in a professional and efficient way, several projects, always adapted to the legislation in force in each country” Indra has
also participated in the organization of electoral processes in the European Union (EU) and the United Nations, being, therefore, “an organization with a recognized reputation in this field at an international level”.
It also highlights the fact that it is “one of the leading global companies in technology and consulting and a technological partner for its customers around the world”. It is also a world leader in providing its own solutions in specific segments of the transport and defense sectors, and a leading company in digital transformation and information technology in Spain and Latin America.
At the end of 2020, Indra had a turnover of 3,043 million euros, had around 48,000 employees, a local presence in 46 countries and operations commercials in more than 140.
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