The Angolan opposition expressed this Thursday “concern” about the appointment of dates for the investiture of the President of the Republic without validation of the electoral results and announced the creation of a working group to call demonstrations that express “the revulsion” of the voters.
The statement signed by five Angolan opposition parties (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, UNITA; Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition, CASA-CE; Social Renovation Party, PRS; National Front for the Liberation of Angola , FNLA ; and Bloco Democrático), stresses that they are following the case before the Constitutional Court (TC), before the appeals challenging the official results and expect him to play his role “in a patriotic and competent manner”, seeking “a distinguished position shameful and servile” of the National Electoral Commission (CNE).
The parties emphasize that they opportunely denounced the irregularities practiced by this body and the serious anomalies in the results announced by the CNE, proposing the collation of the minutes signed by the list delegates and assuming “the right to continue the litigation in other instances.”
They also expressed concern about the fact that an investiture program for the President and Vice President of the Republic is being carried out “with planned dates and public institutions involved, without definitive validation of the electoral results by the TC, which demonstrates a subordination of Organs judicial organs to the party/State”.
Subscribers also claim to be attentive “to the clamor and sentiment of the population”, for which they decided to create a working group “to study the framework and conditions for the organization and convening of demonstrations as an expression of the feeling of repulsion of voting citizens” .
These demonstrations, they underline, will have “a strictly peaceful and orderly character”, being carried out in coordination with the public order bodies and “framed in the spirit of the constitutional order, the law and the public interest”.
The Angolan armed forces raised the state of combat readiness from Sunday until September 20 to avoid incidents that “disturb public order and tranquility”.
During this period, the security measures of the main economic and strategic objectives and of the State institutions, the control of the movement of military columns and the restrictions on the departure of military aircraft will be reinforced.
The military police, in cooperation with the national police, must also intensify vehicle and foot patrols in urban and suburban centers, with a view to picking up military personnel and vehicles that contravene the provisions contained in the order.
Columns of military and police vehicles, with armored cars, have circulated along the main access roads to Luanda, giving visibility to the military orders.
Last week, the president of the CNE, Manuel Pereira da Silva, announced the final tabulation of the general elections on August 24 and proclaimed the winners to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and its candidate, President outgoing, João Lourenço, with 51.17% of the votes. 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 PRS won two seats in parliament by adding 1.14% of the voters’ votes, the same number of deputies that the FNLA and the Angolan Humanist Party (PHA) won, 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: TSF
