The electoral victory People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) with 51.17% of voter support, confirming the relationship between his continuity in power and the political maturity of his leadership.
There is a clear relationship between the foundations of independence, unity and defense of sovereignty that has not ceded over time, and after 47 years of exercise of power it is reproduced and strengthened in the present conditions, when it is in Africa Strategic shifts take place in the future.
The victory of the MPLA is undoubtedly a tribute to a character Antonio Agostino NettoThe physician and poet who led the rebellion against colonialism with optimism that revolutionary victory would be certain, and he was.
Neto and the patriots who surrounded him transcended into contemporary African history as an expression of liberating consciousness, with which they also filled the ideological void of unity: “One people, one nation.”
All this is the background, they argue for the continuity of the movement at the head of the country, as well as the fact that its administration as a state protects Angola from the invasions of the apartheid regime in South Africa and the outbreak of internal conflicts.
Similarly, Neto’s concept of solidarity is shared by other leaders such as the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, It formed the path of fraternal cooperation with the entire continent.
Both “showed the world the merits of friendship and solidarity when, at the beginning of the building of the Angolan nation, they agreed to implement international assistance,” as Maria Eugenia Neto, the widow of the first African head of state is considered.
In the year of the centenary of his birth, Antonio Agostinho Neto is reported to “play not the role of those who waited with folded arms, but of those who wish to change the course of events (…)”, says Giornal de Angola.
No one loses sight of the fact that the MPLA, with its electoral victory, won 124 out of 220 seats in the National Assembly (parliament), which is crucial in furthering its legislative projects.
The path to victory in the last elections was not easy, “but there is a great truth: the MPLA won an absolute majority,” stressed Maria Julia Mayoral, chief correspondent for Prensa Latina in the Angolan capital, Luanda.
To carry out the consultation, 13,238 schools and 26,488 polling stations were equipped in the country, as well as ballot boxes that were installed in the diplomatic missions of Angola in 25 cities from 12 countries. National Electoral Commission.
The last general elections were the most complicated to prepare and implement, as 14,399,391 citizens were called to the polls, of whom 22,560 reside abroad, and were included for the first time within the diaspora.
Likewise, the MPLA victory confirmed for another five years the mandate of incumbent President João Lorenzo, who remains at the head of state after facing four other candidates during that civic exercise conducted on the twentieth anniversary of peace and progress towards reconciliation.
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