“Peace and Development” Y “Don’t be fooled again.” These are the two slogans that will mark the Angolan elections scheduled for next week. Essentially, they translate two paths: continuity or rupture. On the one hand, the MPLA could prevail as the dominant political force —something that has happened since the independence of Angola— if President João Lourenço manages to be re-elected. For its part, UNITA dreams of coming to power for the first timecounting on Adalberto Costa Júnior to achieve this goal.
The elections take place a month and a half after the death of Jose Eduardo dos Santos, former President for 38 years, a climate marked by the exchange of accusations between the family and the Angolan presidency regarding the fate of the body of the former head of state — who will meet this Saturday at 7:16 p.m. in the Angolan capital, with the presence of João Lourenço in the airport. With the specter of a civil war that never stopped hanging over the country, Angola is experiencing a scenario of political bipolarization and Sérgio Calundungo, president of the Political and Social Observatory of Angola (OPSA), even considers, in statements to the Observer, that “These are the closest and most tense elections since 1992.”
Elections/Angola. “It will be the best disputed elections in history”
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Source: Observadora
