Luanda — President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' ruling party has won 74 percent of the national vote assuring his government, in power for 32 years, another five years in power.
With about 85% of the boxes counted, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) had 73% of the nearly 4.9 valid votes cast, according to figures from the country's National Electoral Commission. The MPLA will control Angola's 220 seat legislature, but the party's margin of victory is down from the 82 percent that it won in 2008.
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