Mbaga Lazaro
Senior Member
- Aug 9, 2020
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Rais wa sasa Joao Lourenco wa chama cha People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, kinachojulikana kwa kifupi cha Kireno MPLA, ameshinda muhula wa pili wa miaka mitano madarakani baada ya kupata 51% ya kura za urais Jumatano na zaidi ya 97% ya kura zote zilizohesabiwa.
Mpinzani mkuu wa lourenco, Adalberto Costa Mdogo wa Muungano wa Kitaifa wa Ukombozi wa Angola, au UNITA, alipata 44% ya kura. Katika uchaguzi uliopita wa 2017, UNITA ilipata 26% ya kura za urais.
Chama tawala kilishinda viti 124 vya bunge kati ya 220 vilivyowaniwa.
Kundi kuu la upinzani limetilia shaka uwazi wa matokeo ya urais ya tume ya uchaguzi na bado halijakubali matokeo ya kura ya Jumatano.
Umaarufu wa chama tawala katika uchaguzi huu ulikuwa umeshuka kwa asilimia 10 kutoka kwa uchaguzi uliopita walipopata 61% ya kura zilizopigwa.
Kampeni za uchaguzi mkuu wa tano wa Angola zilijikita katika masuala ya kiuchumi na umaskini, huku wapiga kura wengi wakilalamika kuwa tabaka la kisiasa limewatelekeza, licha ya rasilimali ya mafuta nchini humo.
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Angola’s ruling party is set to extend its reign for another five years, giving it a total of 52 years in power. The main opposition said it would challenge the results of Wednesday’s vote.
Incumbent President Joao Lourenco of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola party, known by its Portuguese acronym MPLA, has won a second five-year term in office after garnering 51% of the Wednesday presidential vote with more than 97% of the votes tallied.
Lourenco’s main challenger, Adalberto Costa Jr. of the National Union for the Liberation of Angola, or UNITA, got 44% of the vote. In the last election in 2017, UNITA received 26% of the presidential votes.
The ruling party won 124 parliament seats out of the 220 up for grabs.
The leading opposition group has questioned the transparency of the electoral commission’s presidential results and is yet to accept the outcome of Wednesday’s vote.
The ruling party’s popularity in this election had dropped by 10 percentage points from the previous election when they got 61% of the vote cast.
Angola’s fifth general election campaign focused on economic issues and poverty, with many voters complaining that the political class had abandoned them, despite the country’s oil resources.
#Reuters
