Elections2022: MPLA open to dialogue, rules out pacts

 Luanda - The secretary of the Political Bureau for Information of MPLA Rui Falcão said on Friday that his party, which won an absolute majority in the general elections, “was open to dialogue" and has no need to "make pacts.

The politician was speaking to the press in Luanda at the end of the meeting of the Central Coordination Structure of the Campaign, chaired by the party’s leader João Lourenço. 

MPLA has always been open to dialogue. " With a qualified majority we negotiate changes to the Constitution, but now we will be better positioned with an absolute majority". 

Absolute majority rules out "pacts 

The MPLA spokesman ruled out a "hypothetical pact" with UNITA, the opposition party (…). 

"We have an absolute majority. Nowhere in the world a regime pact is made when there is a majority to govern." 

He said the party leader and candidate for the country’s top job, João Lourenço, will not speak until after the release of the final results. 

"We will continue to do our job. This was a first reading and the others will follow,  immediately after the release of the final results", the party official has said. 

With 97.03% of the votes counted across the country and abroad, CNE said on Thursday the MPLA, which garnered 51.07% of the votes, obtained 124 MPs.

While UNITA (44.05%) got 90 MPs, followed by the PRS, the FNLA and PHA with two seats  each.

CASA-CE with 0.75% (46,750) did not get any seat, as did the APN with 0.48% (29,740) and P-NJANGO with 0.42% of the votes (26,268).

Eight candidates run for the country’s top job during the 24 August Elections, which brought together 14.3 million voters, including 22,560 residents abroad, who, for the first time, exercised their right to vote.