Angola’s Ruling Party Leads With 65 Percent of Provisional Count
- Main opposition party, Unita, rejects election results
- Electoral commission says Unita won 24.4 percent of ballots
Jose Eduardo dos Santos casts his vote in Luanda, on Aug. 23, 2017.
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The ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola led a provisional vote count in Wednesday’s election in Africa’s second-biggest oil producer, winning 64.6 percent with almost two-thirds of the results reported.
The main opposition Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or Unita, received 24.4 percent, Julia Ferreira, a spokeswoman for the National Electoral Commission, told reporters Thursday in Luanda, the capital. The Broad Consensus for Angolan Salvation-Electoral Coalition party, the second-biggest opposition group, obtained 8.6 percent, she said.