Angola’s ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola has convincingly won the general election, the electoral commission said on Friday citing provisional results, but the main opposition rejected the outcome.
The National Electoral Commission said the MPLA took 61.10 per cent of the votes counted compared with the opposition UNITA party’s 26.71 per cent.
Meanwhile, the UNITA said the numbers had not been gathered transparently and did not tally with their own count.
After a peaceful election on Wednesday, former MPLA defence minister, Joao Lourenco, is expected to become Angola’s first new president for 38 years, replacing Jose Eduardo dos Santos who, however, will remain party leader.
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