Luanda – The National Electoral Commission (CNE) this Tuesday turned down three complaints filed by the UNITA party and the CASA-CE coalition. However, the contestation is not related to the final results of this August 24th general elections.
According to the CNE Spokesman, Lucas Quilundo, who spoke to the press in the end of a plenary session, the complaint of the CASA-CE had to do with the displaying of the Summarised Minutes of the results in each polling station, but due to the fact that the complainant did not provide evidences of the allegations, it was turned down in accordamce with the Organic Law on the General Elections.
He then explained that a complaint filed by UNITA, subscribed by its electoral list agent, had to do with a request to include a complaint in the Final Report on the General Elections, which was turned down due to the fact that the proposition was mistimed, that is, it entered the CNE when the final report had already been approved without any contestation.
The third complaint, he went on to explain, also from UNITA, was subscribed by its agent at the provincial electoral ward of Moxico, more precisely delivered to the provincial electoral commission. In this case, the party requested a correction of its electoral results in this constituency.
Mr Quilundo explained that this complaint was also rejected because the agent did not have legitimacy to make the proposition directly to the National Electoral Commission (CNE)’s Plenary.
“In view of these facts, the inexistence of legal basis, inexistence of legal premises, such as legitimacy, as well as the lack of a certain juridical eleboration in the pleading, they (the complaints) received a preliminary refusal”, explaind the CNE Spokesman,
According to the final results, MPLA won the polls with 51.17 percent of the votes, confirming the reelection of its presidential candidate, João Lourenço.
The ruling party earned 3.2 million votes that enabled it to elect 124 deputies to the National Assembly.
The final figures released on Monday by the CNE give UNITA 43.95% (2.7 million votes electing 90 deputies) while PRS 1.14% (71,351 votes, 2 deputies), FNLA 1.06% (66,337 votes, 2 deputies) and the newcomer PHA with 1.02% (63,749 votes, 2 deputies).
CASA-CE got 0.76% (47,446 votes), APN 0.48% (30,139 votes) and P-NJANGO with 0.42% of the votes (26,867 votes) did not elect any deputies.
Eight political forces ran in this suffrage which has as total number of voters 6.454,109, representing 44.82% of roughly 14.3 million registered voters.
