Angola’s electoral commission late on Tuesday reported the final results of this month’s legislative elections, with the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) garnering 81,64% of the votes.
The MPLA, in power for the past 33 years, won 191 seats in the 220-seat legislature in the September 5 election, the commission said.
The opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), the MPLA’s former wartime adversary, won 10,39% of the votes cast, electing 16 deputies to the national assembly.
Voter turnout was at 87%, the commission added.
Angolans went to the polls in the first elections held since the end of the country’s 27-year-long civil war in 2002.
The last elections held in 1992 during a lull in the bloody civil conflict were contested by former rebel movement Unita, plunging the country back into a war which only ended six years ago. — Sapa-AFP