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Angola: MPLA Set for Victory in Close Poll That Many Believe Will Not Be Free and Fair
Daily Maverick, 23 August 2022
On the eve of Angola's election, analysts say that if the vote were free and fair, the ruling MPLA would almost certainly lose to the combined opposition -- but that's not going to… Read more »
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Angola: Country Braces for Tight General Election
VOA, 23 August 2022
Angola holds presidential and parliamentary elections Wednesday in what is expected to be the biggest challenge to the country's longstanding one-party rule. Read more »
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Angola: Elections 2022 - Final Days of the Campaign
Maka, 23 August 2022
It was a hectic end to the campaign: observing MPLA rallies in Benguela and Luanda and, on the last day of the 2022 campaign, UNITA's final rally in the district of Cazenga in the… Read more »
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Angola: Free and Fair Elections Still Out of Reach in Angola
ISS, 18 August 2022
With the political playing field stacked in the ruling party's favour, conflict could erupt after the 24 August polls. Read more »
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Angola: The 2022 Election is an Unfair Contest the Ruling MPLA Is Sure to Win
The Conversation Africa, 17 August 2022
Angolans go to the polls on 24 August to vote in parliamentary elections. The leader of the party with the most seats in parliament automatically becomes the president, so this is… Read more »
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Angola: What You Need to Know About August 24 General Elections
DW, 17 August 2022
On August 24, Angolan political parties are looking at the tightest race they have ever run in an election. DW explains who's running, what the issues are and why the contest is so… Read more »
Angola Votes in Closest General Election Contest in Decades
Angola holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday August 24, 2022 in what is expected to be the biggest yet challenge to the country's longstanding one-party rulers, Voice of America reports. The ruling MPLA party, in power for nearly half a century, has been losing young supporters to the leading opposition party, UNITA.
The incumbent president, Joao Lorenco of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), is facing a tough challenge from the opposition candidate Adalberto Costa Junior of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known as UNITA.
The two main political parties have promised to fight corruption, create jobs and improve the living standard of the people. Currently, half of Angola's population lives on less than U.S.$2 per day.
Observers are expressing concern about whether the election will be fair. Officially, there are at least 14 million people eligible to vote but some suspect the actual number to be less because the electoral commission failed to clean the voter rolls of possible double registrations and the deceased. UNITA fears the unverified voter register could be used to rig the vote in favor of the ruling party.
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