The president of UNITA, Adalberto Costa Júnior, admitted on Monday that the Angolan people will be able to take to the streets to challenge the results of the elections held last week in Angolabut placed any responsibility for possible situations of violence on the side of the government.
The UNITA leader recalls that it is the authorities who are armed, not the people, and that the right to demonstrate is constitutionally protected.
Adalberto Costa Júnior spoke in an interview with CNN Portugal in the morning, hours after the Angolan National Electoral Commission (CNE) finished a meeting -which lasted all night- after which the final results of the election were closed. The official results will be announced on Monday afternoon. at a press conference by the president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva—, but UNITA is already showing signs that it will not recognize the final results.
The latest data released by the CNE was still provisional, counted when 97.03% of the votes were counted, but they already accounted for the victory of the MPLA, with more than 3 million votes counted. Provisional data also showed a considerable increase in the number of votes cast by UNITA — about 2.7 million, when in 2017 the party had obtained 1.8 million.
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Source: Observadora
