BE speaks of a “serious warning” to the regime and says that the MPLA “has a minimum to manage”

BE regarded the results of this Monday’s Angola elections as a “serious warning” to the continuity of the MPLA regime, which has “minimum capacity to govern,” anticipating “strong popular opposition” to executive João Lourenço.

Speaking to the Lusa news agency after the final results of the Angola elections brought the MPLA victory with 51% of the vote to UNITA’s 44%, BE leader Luis Fazenda believes that João Lourenço’s party “has a minimum to manage in an election that is completely controlled by the MPLA state apparatus” .

“This can only be understood as a serious warning of the continuity of the regime established by the MPLA, which was a one-party regime and is currently experiencing a crisis of representation and legitimacy,” he defended.

According to the founder and leader of BE, “the results of the elections show that it is not difficult to predict that there will be strong popular opposition to the executive branch of Joao Lourenço”, given that “it is very predictable in the capital and in some other regions of the country.” country”.

For Luis Fazenda, these election results were “a warning to the regime”, “a kleptocratic regime, a regime that in recent years has maintained continuous repression and a huge conflict with social movements, with youth protests.”

“Of course, there are conditions for changing the conditions under which political governance existed in Angola, which is actually very far from the conditions of the Constitution,” he foresees.

Referring to João Lourenço’s speech about a “bid for a political victory”, the blockist claimed that a “set of democratic promises” had been made.

“But the credit they can have at home and abroad is nothing more than the promises they made to end corruption or bring transparency as a show of governance in Angola and it was all nothing but a smokescreen for the decline of the political power of the MPLA”. he criticized.

This Monday’s election resulted in 44.82% of the 14.4 million voters voting, with 1.67% of the white vote and 1.15% of the invalid votes.

The MPLA won 3,209,429 votes, or 51.17%, electing 124 deputies, while the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) won 2,756,786 votes, guaranteeing 90 deputies, with 43.95% of the total.

Thus, the CNE plenum proclaimed the President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço, head of the MPLA list, the party with the most votes and Vice President Esperanza da Costa, second on the MPLA list.