The final result announced by the country’s electoral commission show that re-election of President João Lourenço, took 51.2 percent, while his closest rival of the Unita party, Adalberto Costa Junior got 44% of the votes, the former armed group’s best-ever result.
The opposition party has already protested the result insisting the results do not match its own tally from the polling units.
The MPLA has been in power for nearly five decades, and received knocks for high levels of poverty and unemployment, despite wealth from natural resources such as oil and gas.
On Sunday, a state
funeral was held for long time leader Edouardo Dos Santos
who died in Spain in July, aged 78, but whose burial was delayed by a family request for an autopsy.
Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie
