Angola’s Ruling MPLA Has 74% of Provisional Vote Count
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President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola led a preliminary ballot count with 74 percent of yesterday’s vote in Africa’s second largest oil producer.
The opposition Union for the Total Independence of Angola received 18 percent in the first election to help choose a president in 20 years, Julia Ferreira, spokesman for the national election commission, said in Luanda, the capital.