Angolan legislative election, 2008 is Set
A legislative election will be held in Angola on 5 September and 6 September 2008, as announced by President José Eduardo dos Santos on 27 December 2007. The 220 seats in the National Assembly are at stake.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos says parliamentary elections will take place on 5 and 6 September: the first elections since 1992.
Elections have been expected and repeatedly delayed since 2002, when the government ended a 27-year conflict with the Unita rebel movement.
This is the first time Angola has given a precise date for new elections. So that they can wait for the great results of the Elections
The ruling MPLA narrowly won the 1992 polls, part of a peace plan, but war resumed as Unita rejected the results.
“The Angolan people’s will must be expressed truthfully and without limitations on 5 and 6 September 2008, during the legislative election that will be convened,” President dos Santos said in regular end-of-year address to the nation.
Presidential polls are expected to follow a year later.
According to reports there are about Seven million Angolans have been registered for the 2008 general elections, Angola’s official news agency ANGOP reported on Sunday. And
Angola’s National Electoral Commission (CNE) has invited the African Union (AU) to send observers to oversee the scheduled September 5 parliamentary elections results
Some are asking about the Election Results in Angola, will it be Fair and Free Election.
Well That is what we need to know.
