ELECTIONS IN ANGOLA
Sep 8th, 2008 by admin
Preliminary results show that Angola’s ruling party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), is heading for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections in 16 years. With more than half of the votes counted, the MPLA has received 81% of the vote, while the main opposition party, Unita, has received 10%, according to the electoral commission. But many people were prevented from casting their vote in Luanda province, with polling stations opening late and others running out of ballot papers. Unita has demanded a re-run of the vote in Luanda, the capital, but observers from the Southern African Development Community say the vote was “transparent and credible”. The head of the EU observer mission in Angola blamed “woeful organisation” for the problems