Africa-Press – Angola. The National Electoral Commission (CNE) declared, this Monday, in Luanda, João Lourenço as President of the Republic and Esperança da Costa as Vice-President of the Republic, after releasing the final results of the General Elections of 24 August, which confirmed the MPLA as winning party, with 3,209,429 votes, corresponding to 51.17 percent of the valid votes.
The president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva, who presented the final results, said that the UNITA party was in second place, with 2,756,786 votes, corresponding to 43.95 percent. With these results, he continued, the MPLA elects 124 deputies, while the Galo Negro has 90 deputies.
Thus, the PRS, with 71,351 votes, equivalent to 1.14 percent, the FNLA, with 66,337 votes, corresponding to 1.06 percent, and the PHA, with 63,749, equivalent to 1.02 percent, elected each two deputies.
CASA-CE obtained 47,446 votes, corresponding to 0.76 percent, APN, 30,139 votes, equivalent to 0.48 percent, and P-JANGO, with 26,867 votes, corresponding to 0.42 percent, did not elect any congressperson.
The president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva, said, during the presentation of the final results, that the tally of the General Elections, according to the votes cast, confirms the MPLA with 124 deputies, UNITA with 90, PRS, FNLA and PHA with two deputies each. In this order, CASA-CE, APN and P-JANGO did not obtain, as the minutes attest, any deputy.
After reading the Minutes of National Tabulation of Definitive Electoral Results of the General Elections of 24 August, the president of the CNE proclaimed, as mentioned above, the MPLA candidate, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, as President of the Republic, and Esperança Maria Eduardo Francisco da Costa as Vice-President of the Republic.
Manuel Pereira da Silva recalled, on the occasion, that “it is up to the CNE to centralize all the results obtained by each competing political formation, and to proceed with the proclamation of the President of the Republic, the head of the list by the national circle of the most voted party, the Vice-President of the Republic, the second head of the list of the most voted party, and the distribution of the seats of the deputies to the National Assembly”.
The president of the CNE said that a total of 14,399,391 voters were registered for the General Elections, with 6,454,109 voting, which corresponds to 44.82 percent of citizens. He noted that 7,945,282 voters did not vote (55.18 percent), polling stations registered 107,746 blank votes (1.67 percent), and 74,259 null votes (1.15 percent).
The elections, he said, had 6,272,104 valid votes (97.18 percent). 26,488 polling stations were available, distributed in 164 municipalities in the 18 provinces, to serve voters in the country. Abroad, the process mobilized 45 polling stations, distributed in the cities of some diplomatic missions and consulates in Angola, namely Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg (South Africa), Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo (Brazil), Brazzaville, Belize and Ponta Negra (Republic of Congo), Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Matadi (DRC), Paris (France), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Oshakati, Rundu and Windhoek, (Namibia), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Solwezi, Lusaka and Mongu (Zambia) and London (Great Britain).
President Manuel Pereira da Silva explained that, based on the assessment reports of the votes claimed at the polling stations and reviewed by the plenary sessions of the 18 provincial electoral commissions and by the CNE plenary, the valid votes were distributed as follows: “117 votes for the party PHA; 54 for P-JANGO; 2,939 for UNITA; 168 for FNLA; 73 for CASA-CE; 67 for APN; 148 for PRS; and 4,364 votes for MPLA.
For these General Elections, the Constitutional Court validated the candidacies of seven political parties and a coalition of political parties, namely MPLA, UNITA, PRS, FNLA, PHA, APN, P-JANGO and CASA-CE. Each political formation competing for the elections received, for the electoral campaign, the value of four hundred and forty-four million, eight hundred and two thousand kwanzas (444,802,000 kz).
Depending on the final electoral results, the APN and P-JANGO parties are awaiting the Constitutional Court’s pronouncement, since, under legal terms, they can be extinguished, for not reaching 0.5 percent of the votes. CASA-CE, which managed to overcome the 0.70 percent barrier, maintains active political activity, but does not participate in parliamentary debates, as it does not elect any deputy.
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