LUANDA: Angola’s top court rejected appeals by two opposition parties on alleged irregularities in a vote won comfortably last month by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling MPLA party.
The Constitutional Court was also due to rule later yesterday on an appeal by main opposition party UNITA, which came second in the election with 19 percent.
If the court also rules against UNITA, opposition parties will have run out of legal avenues to object to the vote that cemented the MPLA’s dominance over Africa’s second oil producer. Dos Santos, who has been in power in Angola for 33 years, and his party secured a new five-year term in the Aug. 31 election, obtaining 72 percent of the vote.
Angola court rejects vote appeals
