Angola’s ConCourt rejects appeal to annul election results

Angola’s Constitutional Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal by the largest opposition party (UNITA) to annul the results of last month’s election, which gave a landslide victory to the ruling MPLA party. UNITA had argued that in multiple provinces the results presented by the National Electoral Commission differed considerably from their own tally, alleging the results were not the product of local vote counting but were instead centrally engineered. The Constitutional Court dismissed this argument, saying the polling station tallies presented by UNITA did not show any bias against the party. The Constitutional Court dismissed this argument, saying the polling station tallies presented by UNITA did not show any bias against the party.
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