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Ballot counting was underway in Angola today in a tense atmosphere after provisional results from a parliamentary election gave the ruling former Marxist party a strong lead and the opposition dismissed them as unreliable.

Election officials said in the early hours of Thursday that preliminary results from Wednesday’s election showed the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola , in power for nearly five decades, had garnered 60.65% after a third of the votes were counted.

Thursday’s announcement of provisional results by the National Electoral Commission was surprisingly soon after polls closed; in 2017, the elections’ final results were announced two weeks later.“Our polling centres clear provisional indicators of UNITA’s winning trend in all provinces of our country,” he told a news conference.

The last, decade-long bout of fighting was triggered in 1992when UNITA contested election results giving the MPLA a clear majority. That triggered a re-start of the civil war which lasted until the two sides made a peace agreement in 2002.

 

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