Luanda - At least 22,000 Angolan citizens living in the diaspora may vote in the elections set for 24 August.
This information was released Tuesday in Luanda by the spokesman for the National Electoral Commission (CNE), Lucas Quilundo, at the end of an extraordinary meeting of that body which approved the directive on the dissemination of polling locations outside the country.
According to Mr. Quilundo, voting will take place in 12 countries and 25 towns located in three regions of the world, namely Africa, Latin America and Europe.
These are in South Africa (in the cities of Pretoria, Cape Town and Johannesburg), Namibia (Windhoek, Oshakati and Rundu), Democratic Republic of Congo (Lumbumbashi, Matadi and Kinshasa), Republic of Congo (Brazzaville, Dolisie and Ponta Negra) and Zambia (Soluezi, Lusaka and Mongo).
In Latin America, voting will take place in Brazil (Brasilia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), while in Europe it will take place in Germany (Berlin), Belgium (Brussels), France (Paris), the United Kingdom (London), Portugal (Porto and Lisbon) and the Netherlands (Rotterdam).
CNE also decided that from the next plenary meetings, political parties registered with the Constitutional Court may send their assistants to monitor the subsequent stages of the organization of the 24 August general elections.
Apart from the MPLA, 12 other political parties are eligible to contest the next general elections, including UNITA, FNLA, PRS, the Democratic Bloc and the National Patriotic Alliance.
The other contestants are P-NJANGO (Nationalist Party for Justice in Angola), Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) and the CASA-CE coalition, made up of five parties.
