Election results

Angola's electoral commission on Monday declared the ruling MPLA, in power for nearly five decades since independence, the winner of last week's national ...

The ruling party will need the backing of opposition lawmakers to pass legislation. If that is rejected, he can challenge the result in the Constitutional Court, which must rule within 72 hours. The commission gave the ex-Marxist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) a 51.17% majority after all votes were counted. Local observers said the elections were free. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com A European Union spokesperson said in a statement the election was conducted in a "peaceful environment" but said it was aware of complaints by the opposition and civil society on "some shortcomings in the electoral process".

The MPLA, a former liberation movement, has ruled Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975.

The three parties had each two MPs elected to Parliament. Broad convergence for the Salvation of Angola (Casa-Ce), Angola Patriotic Alliance (APN) and Pjango got 0.76, 0.48 and 0.42 percent of the votes, respectively, Mr Silva declared. In a joint statement with former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, the two former heads of state, who were election observers, stressed that the vote was conducted “in a free, fair and transparent manner”. Other parties that contested the polls were the Social Renovation Party (PRS), which got 1.14 percent, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) garnered 1.06 percent, while the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) got 1,02 percent of the votes. According to CNE, the opposition coalition led by MPLA’s historic rival, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), was second with 43.95 percent of the votes and 90 MPs. Angola’s ruling party, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), has won the August 24 general election with 51.17 percent of the votes, handing the incumbent a second term.

Official Angolan election result gives ruling MPLA wafer-thin win – on the streets the outcome isn't believed · Angola's elections were, for the first time, a ...

[The Conversation](https://theconversation.com) under a Creative Commons licence. [provisional official results](https://resultados2022eleicoesgerais.cne.ao/resultados/0) published on 25 August evening – a day after the vote – gave 51.07% to the MPLA and 44.5% to Unita. [ first results](https://www.mudei.jikuangola.org/mudei/pagin/home) from Mudei’s parallel count on election day gave Unita a significant lead of 53% across the country, with 43% for the MPLA. At the Lisbon consulate, [ captured on video](https://twitter.com/pedromassangom/status/1562611205755514882), the consular staff fled among insults of incensed voters. Yet even in the hastily presented official results, Unita carried the capital Luanda – where one third of the population live – by a wide margin (63%). At the same time, it is also doubtful whether security forces, hitherto loyal to the ruling party, would remember their “republican duty” and support a transition, if confirmed. [Mudei](https://www.twitter.com/MovCivicoMudei), have given a landslide victory to the Unita coalition, at least in urban centres. The coalition, [ Unita-FPU](https://theconversation.com/angolas-ruling-party-faces-united-opposition-in-upcoming-poll-but-its-pushing-back-182805) (United Patriotic Front) included independent candidates from other opposition parties and formations. For the first time in history, an opposition win seems possible, but it is highly doubtful whether the regime will accept it. They insisted that, as decreed by law, results of the station be posted outside the station. Instead he chose to treat the opposition and his civil society critics as Nor would João Lourenço want to go down in history as the president who lost power for the ruling party.

The United States is closely following the electoral process in Angola and calls for dialogue after opposition disputed preliminary election results, ...

However, the [opposition](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/opposition.html) has rejected the results. [Angola](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/angola.html) claimed victory in the [August](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/august.html) 24 [election](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/election.html). [August](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/august.html) 24 elections." [United States](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/united-states.html) is closely following the electoral process in [Angola](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/angola.html) and calls for dialogue after [opposition](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/opposition.html) disputed preliminary [election](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/election.html) [results](https://www.urdupoint.com/education/results.html), the State Department said on Monday. [](https://www.urdupoint.com/app) [](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/urdupoint/id1622808708) [Muhammad Irfan](https://www.urdupoint.com/en/team/muhammad-irfan.html) Published August 29, 2022

The party of incumbent Joao Lourenco won 51.17% of the vote against 43.95% for the opposition UNITA.

He received military training between 1978 and 1982 in the former Soviet Union, where he got a master’s degree in history before returning home. His father, a nurse, was jailed in the capital Luanda for political activity between 1958 and 1960. Results – the smallest margin of victory the party has ever had – in past elections have been contested, a process that can take several weeks. [a former liberation movement](/wp-admin/post.php?post=1833840&action=edit), has ruled Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975. Adalberto Costa Junior, 60, leader of UNITA, last week called for an international panel to review the vote count. He cited discrepancies between the commission’s count and the main opposition coalition’s own tally.

National Electoral Commission head Manuel Pereira da Silva announced that incumbent President Joao Lourenco, 68, is now the duly elected president. This gives ...

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Three smaller parties have two deputies each, and the remaining three did not get a seat in parliament. Angolans voted last Wednesday in the country’s fifth multi-party elections to choose a president and 220 members of parliament.

Independent candidate Francis Kiragu got 2098 votes to win the Kwa Njenga Ward MCA seat.

In Nairobi’s Embakasi South Constituency, independent candidate Francis Kiragu got 2,098 votes to win the Kwa Njenga Ward MCA seat. Independent candidate Hillary Sandi got 1,968 votes to emerge third while Joseph Mworia, another independent candidate, took the fourth position with 1,944 votes. Lewis Kithinji of Devolution Empowerment Party (DEP) came second with 1,976 votes.

Angola's main opposition party has submitted a legal complaint challenging the electoral commission's finding that the governing party won last week's ...

Under Angola's rules, if UNITA wishes to challenge the results it must first lodge a complaint with the commission. Angola's Constitutional Court is led by Laurinda Cardoso, a former MPLA member who was appointed by Lourenco in August 2021. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Results declared Monday placed the MPLA as the winner with 51.17 per cent of the vote, securing President Joao Lourenco a second term. But the opposition UNITA ...

During the final phase of counting, the party claims “not to have been informed of the decision” by the electoral commission to ratify the results and not to have received a “copy of the tables of the final results”. Candidates have 72 hours after the announcement of results to file a claim to the constitutional court contesting the ballot. But the opposition UNITA “does not recognise the results” from the national electoral commission and will file a legal claim “which will have the effect of suspending the declaration of the final results”, the party’s secretary general, Alvaro Chikwamanga Daniel, said in a video statement sent to AFP, Tuesday.

Results declared Monday placed the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) as the winner with 51.17 percent of the vote, securing a second term for ...

Lourenco came into power in 2017, after strongman Jose Eduardo dos Santos handpicked him as his successor following 38 years in office. In a statement on Monday UNITA said "it is in the interest of all Angolans that the (electoral commission) does not avoid comparing" its tally with those conducted by political parties -- "which represents the electoral truth". During the final phase of counting, the former rebel movement-turned-opposition-party claims "not to have been informed of the decision" by the electoral commission to ratify the results and not to have received a "copy of the tables of the final results". It did particularly well in the capital district of Luanda, where it won a majority, taking it from the grip of the MPLA for the first time. It vowed to file a legal claim "which will have the effect of suspending the declaration of the final results", the party's secretary general, Alvaro Chikwamanga Daniel, said in a video recorded overnight. But the opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) said it "does not recognise the results" from the national electoral commission.

Angola's largest opposition party UNITA says it will contest last week's election results that saw the long-ruling MPLA win a majority.

During the final phase of counting, the party claims "not to have been informed of the decision" by the electoral commission to ratify the results and not to have received a "copy of the tables of the final results". Candidates have 72 hours after the announcement of results to file a claim to the constitutional court contesting the ballot. But the opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) "does not recognise the results" from the national electoral commission and will file a legal claim "which will have the effect of suspending the declaration of the final results", the party's secretary general, Alvaro Chikwamanga Daniel, said in a video statement sent to AFP Tuesday.

The MPLA has been the only party to govern the country since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975, but saw its poorest showing in this year's ballot ...

The MPLA has been the only party to govern the country since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975, but saw its poorest showing in this year’s ballot, down from its victory with 61 percent in 2017. During the final phase of counting, the party claims “not to have been informed of the decision” by the electoral commission to ratify the results and not to have received a “copy of the tables of the final results”. But the opposition UNITA “does not recognise the results” from the national electoral commission and will file a legal claim “which will have the effect of suspending the declaration of the final results”, the party’s secretary general, Alvaro Chikwamanga Daniel, said in a video statement sent to AFP, Tuesday.

Elections held on August 24 were the most hotly contested since Angola's first multi-party vote in 1992.

During the final phase of counting, the party claims "not to have been informed of the decision" by the electoral commission to ratify the results and not to have received a "copy of the tables of the final results". Candidates have 72 hours after the announcement of results to file a claim to the constitutional court contesting the ballot. But the opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) "does not recognise the results" from the national electoral commission and will file a legal claim "which will have the effect of suspending the declaration of the final results", the party's secretary general, Alvaro Chikwamanga Daniel, said in a video statement sent to AFP Tuesday.

Angola's largest opposition party, Unita, announced Tuesday it would contest the results of the legislative elections announced the day before, ...

Unita received 43.95% of the votes cast. The MPLA won the 2017 elections by a landslide with 61% of the vote, recording its lowest score ever. The party said it had "not been informed of the decision" of the commission to ratify the results, and had not received "a copy of the minutes of the count".

The commission said Lourenco and the MPLA won 51 percent of the vote. Opposing party UNITA leader Adalberto Costa Junior has repeatedly said in the past few ...

Under Angola’s rules, if UNITA wishes to challenge the results it must first lodge a complaint with the commission. The commission said Lourenco and the MPLA won 51 percent of the vote. After the most closely fought election since independence from Portugal in 1975, the commission declared the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) the winner, prolonging its nearly five decades of uninterrupted rule and handing President Joao Lourenco a second term.

On Monday, electoral authorities announced that the ruling party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, won the 2022 general elections.

On Monday, the CNE announced that the ruling MPLA won the elections with 51.17 percent of the votes and 124 parliament seats, while UNITA came second with 43.95 percent of the votes and 90 seats at the National Assembly. This came after the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced on Monday that the ruling party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), won the 2022 general elections by gaining 51.17 percent of the votes cast. 24 general election final results. UNITA said that it had not been directly notified of the final decision on the results of the elections, adding that it had learned through media outlets of the results announced by the CNE. On Tuesday, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the country's main opposition party, said it would contest the election results and lodge a complaint that seeks to suspend the announcement of the Aug. On Monday, electoral authorities announced that the ruling party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, won the 2022 general elections.