The Angolan Observatory for Social Cohesion and Justice (OCSJ) criticized this Thursday the “climate of tension” and the “disproportionate movement of troops and military means” in urban centers, considering that the people “only want a fair count of votes ”.
For the OCSJ, any result contrary to the popular will expressed at the polls “compromises social peace, democracy, undermines and hinders the opportunity to build a true rule of law and can open a gap for the formalization of a de facto government” .
The “de facto governments”, says the non-governmental organization, “are not only established by violent coups, but also by vice or lack of power or even electoral fraud.”
In its statement on the general elections on August 24, where the Angolan Popular Liberation Movement (MPLA) was declared the winner by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), the observatory highlights that “any establishment of illegitimate power translates into a government in fact that “.
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And “consequently, it implies the existence of a police state, because inevitably the norms will be violated from their origin and in this way all the acts and actions of the government can be considered lacking in legality and legitimacy,” he emphasizes.
The OCSJ, coordinated by lawyer Zola Bâmbi, says that there are “marked signs of political violence” in Angola, such as “incendiary and intimidating pronouncements by high-ranking officials of the regime and high-ranking officials of the defense and security forces.”
According to this organization, the aforementioned figures “foreshadow instability and war.”
And worse still is the climate of tension and the disproportionate movement of troops and military means in urban centers”, he points out.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Angola (FAA) determined “combatant readiness of its personnel” in this post-election period and personnel of the Angolan National Police are also in prevention.
In the main streets and avenues of Luanda, the Angolan capital, the defense and security forces are visible, armed and deploying all military means.
According to the OCSJ, “what is at stake is only the result of a transparent vote count and the recognition of victory to the party that has won the elections in a free, fair and transparent manner.”
Inexplicably, the organization underlines, “a climate of fear and uncertainty and deep indignation has been installed when acts of persecution, arbitrary arrests, illegal arrests and summary trials with unfounded facts occur.”
The need to count the votes in the August 24 elections has been advocated by competing political parties and various actors in Angolan civil society.
Nobody cares about the demons of the past war. The voting process took place in a peaceful, calm, orderly and shameless manner”, observes the observatory.
“In this way, the people deserve to be informed of the result that comes out of a fair, transparent count, not influenced by outside interests. After, It is not only the parties that are interested in the results of the polls, but the people who cast their vote by free choice”, He points out.
The observatory adds: “It is necessary to renounce any appeal to violence, the imperative is social peace, the interests of the nation and the sovereign people. In this way, electoral legality must be restored to solidify the democratic and legal State and maintain peace.”
Last week, the president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva, announced the final count of the general elections on August 24, which proclaimed the MPLA and its candidate, João Lourenço, the winners with 51.17% of the vote. votes, followed by the National Union for Total Independence. of Angoa (UNITA) with 43.95%.
With these results, the MPLA elected 124 deputies and UNITA 90 deputiesalmost double that of the 2017 elections.
EITHER PRS Party and the debutant Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) will elect two deputies each.
CASA-CE, the National Patriotic Alliance (APN) and the P-Njango did not obtain seats in the National Assembly, which in the 2022-2027 legislature will have 220 deputies.
UNITA together with the Democratic Bloc (BD) filed a contentious electoral appeal before the Constitutional Court of Angola pointing out alleged “irregularities in the process”, whose ruling should be made public today, when the body did not agree to the CASA-CE appeal.
Source: Observadora
