The leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) began publishing online copies of the signed minutes of polling stations this Monday, at a time when the party is claiming victory, in opposition to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) .
On his Facebook page, Adalberto Costa Júnior has already published data referring to the municipalities of Cacuaco and Belas, which according to UNITA won the party by 75% and 61% respectively with the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA ) at 21% and 36 % to obtain.
According to the final results of the CNE, displayed on the portal, UNITA won the province of Luanda with 62.25%, while the MPLA achieved 33.62%, without ever distinguishing the results of the nine municipalities (Belas, Cacuaco, Cazenga, Icolo and Bengo, Luanda, Quiçama, Kilamba Kiaxi, Talatona and Viana) or even through polling stations.
In the publication, Adalberto Costa Júnior included digital copies of the polling station minutes, signed by the president appointed by the CNE for each location and party representatives present.
The UNITA leader has claimed victory and says he has signed original minutes guaranteeing this result, contradicting the authorities’ announcement.
Last week, UNITA had already insisted that the victory in Luanda (the country’s largest constituency) was superior to what the CNE had declared, allowing it to be more elected by the province, but also by the national constituency.
Of the 220 deputies that make up the Angolan hemisphere, 90 are voters for the 18 provincial constituencies and the rest are elected by counting the national votes.
UNITA requested the Constitutional Court (TC) to declare the ineffectiveness of the minutes of the final election results approved on August 28 and that the CNE be subpoenaed to admit its claims.
Under the order, which Lusa had access to, UNITA – which won 43.95% of the vote (90 seats) according to the CNE against 51.17% for the MPLA (124 seats) – is contesting the results and claims to have a different number of votes. to have. mandates other than those published by the body responsible for the Angolan electoral process.
The order against the CNE states that UNITA’s representative, David Horácio Junjuvili, attended the August 28 meeting, where the minutes of the final national table of the elections, held on August 24, “were not satisfied with the results” , wanted to record your complaint in the minutes, which did not happen.
“Unexpectedly, he was not allowed to exercise that right on the basis of, allegedly, his claim being untimely,” the document, which was submitted to the TC on Friday, reads.
In the order, UNITA argues that “the CNE” disregarded respect for the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms and the fulfillment of constitutional and legal duties, as it is “unlawful and punishable under criminal law for taking and exercising political power based on violent or in other ways not provided for or in accordance with the Constitution”.
The order also questions the CNE’s interest in expediting the publication of the final election results: “God knows why there is such a rush, since the CNE is not a stakeholder in the dispute for political power,” he concludes.
UNITA demands that the Angolan CNE compare the minutes of the polling stations in its possession with the minutes of the parties, and disputes the fact that the authorities did not even mention the data related to the polling stations, which allowed the final accounting.
On Monday, CNE President Manuel Pereira da Silva released the final minutes of the August 24 general election, in which the MPLA and its candidate, João Lourenço, were declared the winners with 51.17% of the vote, followed by UNITA with 43.95 %.
With these results, the MPLA elected 124 delegates and UNITA 90 delegates, almost double the 2017 election.
The Social Renewal Party (PRS) won two seats in parliament by adding 1.14% of the vote, the same number of deputies that the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) won by 1.06 % and 1.02 votes respectively.
The CASA-CE coalition, the APN and the P-Njango have not won any seats in the National Assembly, which will have 220 deputies in the 2022-2027 legislature.
Source: DN
