Luanda – With the latest provisional results of the polls, at a time that 97.03 per cent of the votes cast are counted, the MPLA has just secured 124 of the 220 parliamnetary seats, which points to an absolute majority win.
The latest provisional results, released tonight by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), give the MPLA 51.07 per cent of the votes (corresponding roughly to 3.1 million votes), followed by UNITA with 44.05 per cent (roughly 2.7 million, 90 parliamentarhy seats secured), and the PRS with 1.13% (70,398 votes, 2 MPs).
The FNLA comes next with 1.05% (65,223/2 MPs), followed by the PHA with 1.01% (63,002/ gaining 2 MPS), then comes the only coalition, CASA-CE, with 0.75% (46,750), a result that does not enable them to a single parliamentary seat, which is the same case with the APN that got 0.48% (29,740) and the P-NJANGO with 0.42% (26,268 votes).
According to the Spokesman of the National Electoral Commission (CNE), Lucas Quilundo, the tallying continues and in the upcoming hours, perhaps on Friday, the final results are to be announced by the institution.
These were the fifth elections in Angola.
