Africa-Press – Angola. The Spanish company Indra, chosen to support the elections in Angola and which has been accused of fraud, classifies the suspicions as “political noise”, according to its International Director for Electoral Processes, Eduardo Tejerina González.
He told Lusa, Wednesday (23), that there are no complaints or documentation to support UNITA’s accusations, stressing that the company follows the guidance of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and what is stipulated in the specifications.
“All this is closely monitored by the CNE and election observers”, as happened in 2017 (the last year of elections in Angola) “and no one spoke of irregularities”, said González, noting that Indra has repeated electoral processes in countries that, including , “change political color”.
“If there was a suspicion of fraud and a change in the political color of the Government, would they want to collaborate with IN-DRA again if they thought we had done something irregular?”, he asked. The official stressed that Indra is involved in “very transparent” electoral processes. , very clear”, which leave no doubt for anyone, neither the Government nor the opposition.
“What is happening now is that it is a moment of normal political noise, but we are not on the political level, we are on the technical level, we are carrying out a technical implementation of the electoral process”, he continued. Eduardo González said that if Indra were around behind an electoral fraud in 2017, opposition parties reportedly took the allegations, supported by evidence, to court: “These evidences are simple, they [party representatives] are in the assemblies, they have copies of the bulletins and the summary and can inspect this data, they did this work, but they did not find irregularities”, he stressed.
UNITA, the main opposition party, has contested the choice of Indra, responsible for technological solutions for the 2008, 2012 and 2017 general elections, in the elections scheduled for August this year and has already announced that it would contest the contest, accusing the company of fraudulent.
UNITA’s reaction
The president of the Parliamentary Group of UNITA, Liberty Chiyaka, told the press yesterday that his party wants to challenge the public tender that selected INDRA, to provide the electoral technological solution for “false identity”, deputy, the CNE says that it was INDRA Sistemas SA, chosen to organize the electoral process next August, but on its website it mentions another company, an associate, called Minsait, which ran and won.
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