According to the announcement, published Tuesday in the newspaper Jornal de Angola, the public tender is open only to Angolan entities and the contract execution period is three months.
Taking into account the estimated value of the contract, each vehicle, which will be used in the process of supervising the in-person voter registration and pre-mapping of polling stations for the 2022 general elections, will cost 56 million kwanzas.
Candidates will have to acquire the parts of the procedure, in the amount of 250 thousand kwanzas, and hand over a deposit of 5 percent of the overall price of the proposal, and submit their proposals within 20 days, and the one with the lowest price will be chosen.
The CNE, an independent body that organizes, executes, coordinates and conducts electoral processes, is composed of 17 members and is presided over by a magistrate, chosen on the basis of a curricular competition and designated by the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSMJ).
The current president is Manuel Pereira da Silva ("Manico"), who was sworn in on February 19 of last year, under protest from opposition parties and civil society.
At the time, the deputies of the opposition parties, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA), Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola - Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE), Partido da Renovação Social (PRS), Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (FNLA) and the four independents opted to leave the room before the voting, as they considered that "Manico" did not meet the conditions for the position.
Manuel Pereira da Silva, who was president of the Provincial Electoral Commission of Luanda, was the best ranked candidate in the public curricular competition for the position, previously held by André da Silva Neto, but the outcome of the competition was conditioned by legal actions brought against the CSMJ, and the complaints, cautious procedures and actions that were presented were dismissed.
All Angolan citizens aged 18 are subject to voter registration, and registration is carried out by fixed or mobile brigades, while political parties are empowered to supervise these acts.
