The Portuguese President of the Republic declined this Friday to comment on the electoral results in Angola since the process “is still ongoing”, but said that he will have the opportunity to talk with protagonists of the political situation.
I will certainly have, in Angola, the opportunity to speak with protagonists of the Angolan political situation”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa who, tonight, will travel to that country to participate in the funeral of former president José Eduardo dos Santos, scheduled for Sunday.
Speaking to journalists at the opening of the Porto Book Fair, where he spent more than two hours touring the supportsthe head of state said that he intended to “congratulate the protagonists of an important moment of Angolan democracy for the peaceful character that surrounded the holding of the elections”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa declined to comment on the results of those electionsas the process is still ongoing.
There are deadlines until the definitive formalization of the results, as happens in Portugal, and we had a case in Portugal of taking two months until that formalization was completed and, therefore, it makes no sense to be commenting on what is not complete”, he reinforced. .
Asked about the program for the funeral of José Eduardo dos Santos, the President of the Republic said that he still does not have details, hoping to have them by the end of the day or on Saturday.
What is known is that it will be on the 28th [domingo] starting in the morning, but I haven’t done it until now [programa]I’m sure I’ll still have it today and then all the more tomorrow [sábado] when he arrives in Luanda at dawn”, he revealed.
As a curiosity, the State Chef told me that, while wandering or telling me, he found an Angolan editor who was responsible for his confidence that “a friend or relative” was in the organizing committee for the funeral of the former Angolan president, but also “I did not know how would it be”.
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) won the Angolan general elections with 51.07%, followed by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) with 44.05% of the vote, the Commission disclosed. National Electoral (CNE). ) in Angola, when 97.3% of polling stations were counted.
The provisional results were released this Thursday by the CNE spokesman, Lucas Quilundo, at a time when they were 97.3% of polling stations were countedor, so there should be no substantial changes, he added.
Source: Observadora
