Angola’s President, Joao Lourenco has won a second five-year term on Monday after his party People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, (MPLA) claimed victory.
The National Electoral Commission announced that the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, MPLA won 51.17 percent of the ballots against 43.95 percent for the main challenger, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
According to BBC, President Lourenco described the result as a “vote of confidence” that gave the party the responsibility to “promote dialogue and consultation”.
The MPLA has been in power since independence from Portugal in 1975.
Mr Lourenço became president in 2017 after long-standing leader José Eduardo dos Santos stood down.
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