On Monday, the National Assembly will hold the solemn plenary session to close the fifth and last parliamentary year of the IV Legislature. At the end of the parliamentary year, a balance of the activities carried out during the legislature will be presented, with the closing speech of the President of the National Assembly, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.
At the opening of the next parliamentary year, which normally takes place on October 15, a new legislature will already be in force and some faces will have to debut in the National Assembly, since Angola has elections scheduled for August 24.
The 220 members of the National Assembly of Angola are elected by two methods: 130 members proportionally by the so-called national constituency and the remaining 90 seats are reserved for each of the 18 provinces of Angola, using the d’Hondt method and in which each elects five parliamentarians.
In the previous electoral act, in 2017, the MPLA obtained the majority with 61.07% of the votes and elected 150 deputies, and UNITA obtained 26.67% and 51 deputies. It was followed by the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), with 9.44% and 16 deputies, the Social Renovation Party (PRS), with 1.35% and two deputies, and the Front National. Angola (FNLA), with 0.93% and one deputy.
In addition to these parties, this year’s elections, which are expected to be close, are also contested by the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA), the National Patriotic Alliance (APN) and the Nationalist Justice Party in Angola (P-Njango). .
Source: Observadora
