Angola’s ruling MPLA party has won the country’s parliamentary election, provisional results suggest.<\/p>\n
The party received 61% of votes cast during Wednesday’s ballot, the Angolan electoral commission said on Friday.<\/p>\n
The opposition Unita party, which received 27%, disputes the commission’s count.<\/p>\n
Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o\u00a0will take up the presidency, after an election marking the end of nearly four decades in power for President Jos\u00e9 Eduardo Dos Santos.<\/p>\n
The electoral commission says 98% of the country’s votes have been counted.<\/p>\n
However, voting in the election does not end until Saturday due to delays in getting the ballot papers to more than a dozen polling stations in remote areas.<\/p>\n
But with the MPLA taking such a commanding lead, the outstanding ballots will not change the outcome.<\/p>\n
Angola’s Casa-CE alliance party gained nearly 10% of the vote.<\/p>\n
Angola is one of Africa’s largest oil producers, but it is struggling to recover from a 27-year-civil war between the MPLA and Unita and most people live in poverty.<\/p>\n
Mr Louren\u00e7o, the former defence minister known as JLo, was the MPLA candidate to succeed Mr Dos Santos.<\/p>\n
However Mr Dos Santos, whose 38-year reign makes him the world’s second-longest serving president, will remain in control of the party.<\/p>\n
His children also still hold several key positions of authority.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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