Angolan Opposition Parties Reject Ruling Party's Election Win

Election results in Africa are frequently contested, most recently a presidential vote in Kenya that is still in dispute. Now in Angola, CASA-CE coalition has rejected the final results of the August 24 general elections, released on August 29 by the National Electoral Commission (CNE). In a statement, CASA-CE Board, which filed a written complaint to the CNE, states that the results "do not reflect the electoral truth expressed by Angola's sovereign people".

The governing party in Angola has claimed victory after the electoral body put its vote at 51%, but the leader of the main opposition, UNITA, rejected the results too and filed a complaint against the ruling MPLA party's victory.

Fewer than half of Angola's registered voters turned out for the polls, which appears certain to give President Joao Lourenco a second five-year term and extend the rule of the MPLA which has governed the southern African country since independence from Portugal in 1975.