06/09/2022
FINAL DECLARATION ON THE ELECTORAL PROCESS
UNITA and its United Patriotic Front partners, namely the Political Project PRA-JA Servir Angola, the Democratic Bloc and the different personalities of Civil Society, once again salute and congratulate the Angolan People for their expressive civic and patriotic participation in the electoral process, which culminated in the vote on August 24, 2022, under national and international observation.
Our Country consecrated the Democratic Rule of Law in 1991, through the Peace Agreements for Angola ( Bicesse Accords ) that legally and legitimately returned sovereignty to the Angolan people.
Through that, Angolans regained the right to choose their representatives through free, fair, transparent and periodic elections, with republican institutions.
No one, neither the President of the Republic nor the ruling party, has the legitimacy or authority to subvert the constitutional order and popular sovereignty. Any attempt to subvert the will of the People, whether through administrative or procedural means, or through malicious manipulation by the holder of the executive power or the abusive use of repressive force, represents a severe blow against the construction of the Democratic State of Law, a serious setback in the process of transition to Democracy, or better said, crime against the homeland.
As already stated by us, the fifth general elections in the history of our country, Angola, took place in a climate of structural disorganization, programmed and promoted by state institutions that ignored all warnings from the opposition and civil society for the timely correction and improvement of the processes. .
The institutions trampled on administrative principles, transparency and rigor, all premeditated, to obstruct the will of voters and impose a power that considers itself “owner of the country”.
Several illegalities were identified in the electoral process, violating values such as freedom, justice, transparency, fairness, which make it illegitimate, of which the following stand out:
1. The electoral register that excluded thousands of Angolans inside the country and about 427 thousand outside the country, taking into account the figures indicated by the government;
2. Failure to publish provisional lists of voters, under the terms of the Law on Official Electoral Registration, which in its Art . 15 number 3, establishes that, “in an election year, the computer file of senior citizens is provided to the National Electoral Commission (CNE), preceded by a period of provisional publication to allow the correction of errors and omissions to be promoted by the interested parties, at which time they are considered unalterable and contains the data of senior citizens at the time of the elections under the terms of Art 143 of the Constitution of the Republic of Angola (CRA)”.
3. The lack of an independent technical audit to test and certify the integrity of the source programs, the data transmission and processing systems and the procedures for controlling the counting and scrutiny activities, pursuant to numbers 2 and 3 of Article 116 of the Law Organic on General Elections;
4. Failure to publish the electoral rolls, under the terms of the Law (Art 86 - number 5 of Organic Law on General Elections (LOEG));
5. The maintenance of millions of deceased citizens and multiple registrations , under the terms of the Law, which only includes those who have electoral capacity (Official Electoral Registration Law).
6. Obstruction of the accreditation of list delegates in some municipalities, with an incidence in Lunda Sul, Cunene and Luanda;
7. Refusal to deliver the summary minutes to list delegates by some polling station presidents;
8. The model of the Minutes - summary prepared by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and used in the polling stations did not comply with the provisions of Organic Law on the Organization and Operation of the National Electoral Commission (LOSEG), Art 123 – number 2 (the number of voters is not included);
9. The locking of electoral lists with the single signature of the President of the Polling Station Bureau, in compliance with the instruction of the President of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) in flagrant violation of the Law, which requires the signature of all members of the polling station and that of the list delegates ( Art 119 of LOSEG);
10. The lack of legitimacy of the President of the CNE, to legislate through instructions or regulations in opposition to the laws approved by the National Assembly;
11. The national and international justice conscience has its eyes fixed on the Constitutional Court and awaits this time for a coherent jurisprudence.;
12. The extreme partisanship of the public media, the exclusion of the presence of members of the opposition parties and their replacement by commentators agents of the regime; the ongoing manipulation and demonization against the candidacy and leadership of UNITA and its partners;
13. The misuse of public resources by the ruling party, throughout the electoral process, in the face of the silence of the public authorities, namely the Attorney General's Office (PGR), the CNE and the Constitutional Court, as an electoral court;
14. Generalized electoral corruption, widely publicized and practiced by different agents of the regime through social vote-buying programs;
15. The replacement of members of Polling Station Boards, trained and qualified in public tenders, by individuals outside the process that conducted the voting and counting;
16. The relocation of polling stations and voters at the last minute, which contributed to the increase in the number of abstentions, among other facts.
Despite the situation described above, UNITA mobilized citizens to vote and Angolans responded positively to the call for alternation. The Angolans won, democracy won.
UNITA and all the forces of the broad movement for Alternation demand the replacement of Electoral Truth.
For UNITA, transparency is vital for the credibility of the electoral process. Therefore, we present below the data produced by the Counting and Tabulation Center:
SUMMARY OF RELEVANT POINTS BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF RESULTS PUBLISHED BY National Electoral Commission
1. The contestants, with the exception of the MPLA, did not have access to the electoral rolls and, consequently, the real universe of voters is not known.
2. Based on the data from the final mapping and the electoral register, the CNE announced 14,399,391 voters registered on the electoral roll. However, when the last provisional results were published, it stated that the turnout had been 6,379,309 voters (45.5%) out of a universe of 13,973,147 voters. After all, what is the real number of voters registered in the registers? What is the actual number of voters?
3. Luanda Province: the CNE gives UNITA 1,243,894 votes, while UNITA's count, in 2006 minutes alone of the 2,055 in its possession, obtained 1,458,573 votes. In Luanda, there is a difference of 214,679 votes subtracted from UNITA; the process of public disclosure of the Proof Proceedings is currently underway;
4. Zaire Province: based on 258 of the 259 minutes in its possession, UNITA obtained 75,643 votes, contrary to the results announced by the CNE (73,665).
5. Cuando Cubango Province: the CNE gives UNITA only 31,832 votes, while based on 90% of the minutes , it obtained 48,513 votes. 16,861 votes were subtracted from UNITA, which allowed it to obtain another mandate in this circle.
6. Namibe Province: the CNE gives UNITA only 37,744 votes and the MPLA 80,881 votes. It so happens that, in only 90% of the minutes , UNITA obtained 38,583 votes and the MPLA 75,983 votes, where one more mandate can also be assigned to UNITA;
7. Cabinda Province : the CNE casts only 114,300 votes, whereas, based on 100% of the minutes in its possession, UNITA obtained 119,093 votes. There is a difference of 4,793;
8. Huambo Province: the CNE gives the MPLA 308,731 votes. Of the minutes held by UNITA, which represent 99% of the minutes , the MPLA obtained only 294,137 votes. There is a difference of 13,455 votes added to the MPLA;
9. Bengo Province: the CNE gives the MPLA 64,278 votes, but in 100% of the minutes held by UNITA, the MPLA obtained only 60,791, which represents an increase of 3,487 votes for the MPLA;
10. Cunene Province: the CNE gives UNITA just 20,974 votes against 22,464, obtained by its own count, based on 81% of the minutes . There is a difference of 1,490 votes subtracted from UNITA. It should be noted that the election of a mandate in this province was at a distance of 110 votes, which guarantees the election of one member of parliament;
11. Province of Lunda Sul:
a) The CNE gives UNITA 42,611 votes and the MPLA 64,898 votes, with 90% of the minutes processed. It turns out that the approximately 37 minutes missing, to complete 100% of the minutes , refer to 37 Assemblies in which UNITA was prevented from inspecting due to late delivery of credentials and lack of accreditation.
b) Interestingly, in this province, the difference between UNITA and MPLA in the CNE count corresponds to 22,287 votes. The number of voters registered in the 37 missing Assemblies is 22,992 voters;
Conclusion
1. There are discrepancies in the data and results published by the CNE, reinforced on the basis of the minutes held by UNITA which, analyzed as can be exemplified below, may in fact produce changes in the results:
a) 347,436 votes subtracted from UNITA in 15 provincial constituencies.
b) 185,825 votes added to the MPLA in 16 provincial constituencies.
2. The sum of votes subtracted from UNITA and those added to the MPLA is 533,261 votes, a number capable of producing changes in the structure of the final results released by the CNE, with a very visible impact on the number of mandates in provincial circles, in the National circle and in the final results. .
3. For example, if the final results published by the CNE are adopted , and the subtracted votes (347,436 votes) are added to the UNITA result, it would go from 2,756,786 (announced by the CNE), to 3,104,222 votes corresponding to 49.5% and ; if you subtract from the MPLA result, the extra votes that were attributed to it (185,825 votes), it would go from 3,209,409 allocated by the CNE to 3,023,584 votes, corresponding to 48.2%.
4. The illegalities related to the excess number of voters, for the most part, were not confirmed in minutes , which can confirm the following:
a) Existence of two summary minutes for the same polling station, that is, the summary minutes held by the contestants, may not be the same used by the CNE through INDRA;
b) Justify the fact that the model of the summary minutes does not conform to the elements defined by the electoral law, in order to throw off evidence;
c) Failure to publish electoral rolls in accordance with the law.
5. The discrepancies highlighted above indicate the existence of willful manipulation of the results, which can only be clarified by comparing the minutes held by the competitors and the CNE;
6. The violations of laws in search of advantage, the abstention induced by the non-publication of provisional lists of those registered, the non-publication of electoral rolls, the relocation of voters to areas other than their homes, changes to the definitive and published mapping, promoted the obstruction of the right to vote, with an impact on electoral results. These acts committed with intent constitute crimes and should be subject to criminal liability to their authors, holders of public functions;
The data collected by the UNITA counting and tabulation center reveal huge and unacceptable differences from those published by the CNE.
The minutes supporting the count of the UNITA parallel ballot can be consulted. The system that processed them can also be audited.
The Angolan voter calls for transparency and the truth about their vote. Democratic countries and governments express their solidarity with the Angolan people and concerns about the threatened Electoral Truth.
It is in this perspective that the recommendations of the Angolan Electoral Observatory, the MUDEI Civic Association, the Angolan Journalists Union, The Angolan Lawyers’ board, the European Union, the American State Department, the CPLP Observers, as well as the Observers of the African Union, on the General Elections of 24 August.
In these terms, UNITA proposes:
• The national tabulation based on the Law;
• Judicial inspection of all minutes held by the CNE and political parties, in order to confirm their authenticity;
• Comparison of the minutes held by the various competitors with those of the CNE;
• The annulment of voting at polling stations where substantive irregularities have been observed, which falsify the overall result.
To this end, UNITA requests the constitution of a multidisciplinary commission composed of the CNE, members of competing political parties and members of civil society, in the presence of national and international observers.
It is UNITA's conviction that the citizens of all social groups, in the country and in the diaspora, voted decisively for ALTERNANCE, clearly rejecting the governance of the outgoing executive, which is anti-democratic, incompetent and insensitive to the real problems of Angolans and has vices that impede the advancement of society.
UNITA thanks the list delegates and all Angolan citizens who participated, in an enthusiastic and responsible way, in this process, as well as the excellent popular mobilization in defense of their vote.
UNITA and its partners will not dissociate themselves from the will of the voters, as they recognize that the legitimacy of power is the only factor capable of gathering forces to overcome the great challenges that Angola and Angolans face.
By depositing complaints and appeals with the CNE and the Constitutional Court aimed at restoring the Electoral Truth, and implementing the will of citizens, UNITA is providing a decisive opportunity for the electoral dispute to be resolved.
It should be recalled that UNITA exercised a rigorous oversight of the entire electoral process, having used dialogue in the first place, to correct multiple breaches of the laws, which, having not been complied with, resorted to the judicial process. It referred cases to the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, the Attorney General's Office and multiple complaints to the National Electoral Commission. Once Angolan Law has been exhausted, it reserves the right to appeal to the International Courts.
The Injunction sent to the Constitutional Court, in accordance with the Law, suspends the results declared by the CNE, until the dispute is overcome, so we reaffirm the need to maintain serenity.
The Angolan people, the only holder of constituent power, have already expressed their will. No constituted power (CNE or TC) can administratively annul the sovereign decision of the people.
The democratic aspiration definitely won the hearts of Angolans. The energy shown by the people in this campaign expresses their will to overcome the great national problems with a leadership that breaks with the one-party system, which is an impediment to democratization and Angola's development.
In these elections, the Angolans supported the proposals of the Inclusive and Participatory Government that courageously embrace the State Reform, the direct election of the President of the Republic and the reduction of his powers, the realization, within a period of one year, of local elections in all municipalities, the real fight against corruption. The effective fight against poverty, inequalities and social exclusion. These were the reasons that led Angolans to vote mostly for UNITA and its candidate.
The MPLA and its candidate did not win these elections.
UNITA and its partners will never disappoint citizens' expectations for regime change, for an effective Democracy and an authentic National Reconciliation, dignifying Angola in the concert of Nations.
Gratitude to the Angolan people!
Well done to the builders of an inclusive Angola!
No one should steal the victory from us!
The time is now!
God bless Angola!
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