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Democratic Bloc is the only party that did not submit a candidacy in the TC for the elections

The Democratic Bloc has so far been the only political force that has not submitted its candidacy to the Constitutional Court for the August 24 general elections, the court announced this Friday.

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According to the director of the Office of Political Parties of the Constitutional Court, Mauro Alexandre, of the nine potential competitors, only eight have scheduled the delivery of candidacies, of which seven have already applied, in a process that ends this Saturday.

Mauro Alexandre stressed that the delivery of the candidacy of the party Nationalist Justice Party in Angola (P-NJango) of Eduardo "Dinho" Chingunji is scheduled for the last day of the process.

The official stressed that running or not running in the general elections is a choice for the parties, and there is "no legal obligation to run".

"There isn't and there is. There isn't, because it depends on the parties if it runs or not, but there are some legal conditions that are: if the political party doesn't run in two consecutive elections, it runs the risk of being extinct", he explained.

According to the director of the Office of Political Parties of the Constitutional Court, by not submitting the candidacy, the Democratic Bloc is only "out of the party of democracy", with no other consequence because this party ran in the 2017 general elections on the list of the Broad Convergence coalition of Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE).

The Democratic Bloc, in a statement from the political commission released this Friday, announced that 12 party members had suspended their militancy to run on the lists of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in the general elections scheduled for 24 August.

In the note released this Friday, the BD confirmed that "due to the understandings with other national political forces for the alternation of power, the Democratic Bloc will not run with its own acronym, nor a coalition", in the general elections and will no longer be formally a party with a parliamentary seat.

And he added that "in a tremendous patriotic effort to concentrate votes for alternation", some members of the party will integrate the UNITA list, which resulted from the spirit of the United Patriotic Front (FPU).

"In this sense of the patriotic combination of efforts, the 12 members of the Democratic Bloc who are part of UNITA's lists, headed by its vice-president, Justino Pinto de Andrade, suspended, in accordance with the law, their militancy in the party", they informed. 

The name of Justino Pinto de Andrade appears in fourth place in the UNITA list, which is headed by the president of the "Black Rooster" party Adalberto da Costa Júnior, followed by the former leader who left to form the CASA-CE coalition, Abel Chivukuvuku, and Arlete Chimbinda, current vice-president of UNITA and deputy.

In the statement, it was mentioned that the party's president, Filomeno Vieira Lopes, is not part of the list, as he had previously told Lusa, as well as the secretary general of the BD, Muata Sebastião, in order to ensure the "continuous functioning normality of party structures.

As a result of this format of participation in the UNITA list, the Democratic Bloc, in the next legislature, will formally cease to be a party with a parliamentary seat.

"However, the independent deputies appointed by the BD will know, working with the citizens, to maintain the party line expressed in the agreements for the reform of the State, the amendment of the Constitution and anti-democratic laws and the sacred defense of causes and social struggles", added the party.

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