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Two opposition parties, UNITA and CASA-CE, have filed appeals in relation to the electoral process before the Constitutional Court (TC), none of them related to the annulment of elections, the institution reported this Friday.
“The court received late yesterday afternoon [quinta-feira] two complaints, two requests that open the electoral dispute, one from UNITA and the other from the CASA-CE coalition”, said the court spokeswoman, Aida Gonçalves.
Regarding a possible request for annulment of the elections, the director of the office of political parties of the TC, Mauro Alexandre, indicated that, of the processes that were archived, none refers to requests for annulment of general elections. but he did not specify its content.
A source close to the UNITA leadership told Lusa on Thursday that in the request for annulment of the elections, sent to the TC, “several complaints were listed, which constitute illegalities”, registered throughout the electoral process.
The leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) assumed this Friday for the first time the victory in the Angolan elections, through his account on the social network Twitter, promising to defend the “sovereignty of the people and their vote”. . .
Angolans, UNITA won the elections! We will defend the sovereignty of the people and their vote,” wrote Adalberto Costa Júnior, challenging the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to compare the records it has with those it delivered to the opposition parties and reiterating that it does not accept the published results.
Adalberto da Costa Júnior’s post on Twitter was made at 00:22, shortly after he released a video statement, in which he also expressed himself about the results of the general elections held on August 24, but without proclaim victory.
In that statement, the UNITA leader promised that he would not abandon those who voted for the party and justified the silence that his political formation has maintained in this regard with the processes related “to electoral disputes, whose deadlines are ongoing and provided for by law.” . ”, referring to the complaints in the CNE.
UNITA demands that the CNE compare the records of the polling stations in its possession with the records held by the parties, objecting that the authorities did not even indicate the data related to the polling stations, which allowed the final accounting.
The largest opposition party has made a parallel count of the summary records collected by its delegates, “a sensitive and complex process that is now in its final phase”according to Adalberto Costa Junior.
On Monday, the Angolan CNE announced the final results that gave victory, by absolute majority, to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), a result contested by UNITA.
The president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva, proclaimed the winners to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and its candidate, João Lourenço, with 51.17% of the votes, followed by UNITA with 43.95%.
With these results, the MPLA elected 124 deputies and UNITA 90 deputies, almost twice as many as in the 2017 elections.
The Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), the APN and the P-Njango did not obtain seats in the National Assembly, which in the 2022-2027 legislature will have 220 deputies.
Source: Observadora
