Angola opposition party rejects partial poll result

Bloomberg

Angola’s main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or Unita, said that provisional results that gave the ruling party a majority of the votes in an election earlier this week weren’t valid.
“The country doesn’t yet have valid electoral results,” Isaias Samakuva, the leader of Unita, said at a press conference in Viana, on the outskirts of the capital Luanda. “The country still doesn’t have a president elect.”
The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, or MPLA, which has ruled Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975, led a provisional vote count with 61 percent with 98 percent of ballots cast counted, the National Electoral Commission said on August 25. Unita got 27 percent of the votes, while the Broad Consensus for Angolan Salvation-Electoral Coalition party, or Casa-CE, the second-biggest opposition group, got 9.5 percent of the votes. Final results are expected to be announced on Sept. 6, according to the electoral commission.
Samakuva, whose party fought and lost a 27-year civil war against the ruling MPLA that ended in 2002, said the results from the Aug. 23 election were “not official.”