João Lourenço will hear a panel of 24 advisers, who are currently part of this consultation body, and should then announce the date of the election, in which Angolans will choose their new President and representatives in the National Assembly, which should take place up to 90 days before the end of the current term (26 September).
Last week, the President, who is running for a new term, responded to criticism from the opposition that accused João Lourenço of delaying the elections to campaign, stressing that he was meeting the legal deadlines.
At the time, he also said that he would only call the elections after holding the meeting of the Council of the Republic, being able to announce the date "minutes, hours or days later".
The Council of the Republic is a collegiate consultative body of the head of state, where the vice president of the Republic, the president of the National Assembly, the vice president of the MPLA, the leaders of the political parties UNITA, FNLA and PRS, and the CASA-CE coalition.
Also members are the Attorney General of the Republic, the former President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos, the writer Adriano Botelho de Vasconcelos and the Reverends Luís Nguimbe and Suzete João.
The king of Baiacas, António Numa Uta, journalist Ismael Mateus, businessmen Carlos Cunha, Fernando Pacheco and Manuel Monteiro, anthropologist Rosa Cruz e Silva, environmentalist Fernanda Renée, and nationalist Jorge Alicerces Valentim are also advisors.
