Angola election: Ruling party extends 47-year streak with election win

“As typical, the MPLA is doing every little thing to perpetuate itself in energy. Apart from the ruling occasion, no different citizen is proud of the outcomes. The UNITA has develop into the one potential hope for the Angolan folks. Angola hoped to breathe new air, with much less corruption and poverty. However the struggle continues and sooner or later victory will come,” he informed CNN.

Election consultants predicted a good race regardless that opposition candidates not often win in Angola. Costa Junior of the UNITA occasion is a charismatic and common chief who loved recognition among the many nation’s youth, a lot of whom are disaffected and unemployed.

The MPLA has dominated Angola for the reason that nation gained independence from Portugal in 1975. Lourenço, 68, who has ruled Angola since 2017, claimed to have constructed “a brand new Angola,” however throughout election campaigning Costa Junior, 60, blamed the MPLA’s grip on energy for most of the nation’s issues, together with poverty, inflation, and corruption.

Angola is the second-biggest oil producer in Africa and emerged from the wreckage of a 27-year civil struggle to develop into one of many continent’s main financial gamers. However the nation’s huge oil wealth doesn’t trickle right down to a lot of its impoverished residents.

Lourenço was the hand-picked successor to former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who dominated the nation for 38 years and have become, alongside together with his household, enormously rich.