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Angolan Constitutional Court accepts precautionary measure issued by UNITA
UNITA announced on Monday that the Constitutional Court (TC) of Angola will consider its request to declare the ineffectiveness of the record of the final electoral results approved on August 28.
“The request for suspension of the effectiveness of the deliberation meets the budgets to be subject to appreciation by the Constitutional Court. This time, we can only wait for the decision of the TC“, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) said in a statement.
On Friday, UNITA asked the TC to declare the record of the final results of the August 24 elections ineffective and to convene the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to admit their complaints.
Angola. TC confirms UNITA’s complaint, but says it is not requesting annulment of the vote
According to the statement released this Monday, as a result of this request, this Monday the TC notified UNITA of its decisionwhich “means that the request has a legal framework and followed the procedural assumptions.”
According to the protection, to which Lusa had access, UNITA —which, according to the CNE, obtained 43.95% of the votes (90 mandates) compared to 51.17% of the MPLA (124 mandates)—, disputes the results and claims to have determined a series of mandates other than those announced by the body responsible for the Angolan electoral process.
The amparo against the CNE indicates that the UNITA representative, David Horácio Junjuvili, present at the meeting on August 28 where the final national tabulation of the elections was approved, “dissatisfied with the results”, wanted his complaint to be included in the minutes. , which did not happen.
“Unexpectedly, he was prevented from exercising that right allegedly alleging that his claim was time-barred,” says the document, which was filed with the TC on Friday.
In the amparo, UNITA also argues that “the CNE did not respect” respect for the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms and compliance with constitutional and legal duties, being “illegitimate and criminally punishable the seizure and exercise of political power, based on in violent means or in any other way not foreseen or in accordance with the Constitution”.
They also stress that “the exercise of political power lacks legitimacy and that “UNITA’s complaint about the electoral results, in which the CNE incorrectly assigned more mandates to the MPLA candidacy, must be rigorously addressed.”
“The non-admission of the complaint”, also indicates the document consulted by Lusa, “can cause serious damage and difficult to repair in the legal field of UNITA’s candidacy and also transversal to the State itself, and here the exercise of politics, power is at stake”.
The Angolan TC announced on Friday that UNITA and CASA-CE, both in opposition, filed appeals related to the electoral process before said bodybut none of them related to the annulment of the elections.
“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 TC spokeswoman, Aida Gonçalves.
Regarding a possible request for annulment of the elections, the director of the court’s political parties office, Mauro Alexandre, indicated that, of the processes that were filed, none referred to requests for annulment of general elections. but he did not specify its content.
UNITA demands that the National Electoral Commission of Angola (CNE)Compare the tally sheets of the electoral colleges in your possession with the tally sheets in possession of the partiescontesting the fact that the authorities did not even indicate the data related to the polling stations, which allowed the final accounting.
The president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva, announced this Monday the final act of counting the general elections of August 24, which proclaimed the winners to the 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 Social Renewal Party (PRS) won two seats in parliament by adding 1.14% of the votes of the voters, the same number of deputies that the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the Humanist Party of Angola won. Angola (PHA) with 1.06% and 1.02 votes respectively.
The CASA-CE coalition, 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
