A note from the Civil House of the President of the Republic distributed to the press states that in an election year the General State Budget must include an allocation to finance, in an equitable way, political parties and coalitions of political parties with candidacies definitively approved by the Constitutional Court.
The aforementioned amount will be attributed to each of the competing parties and coalitions after approval by the Constitutional Court, the note points out.
This amount, which should be allocated up to the fifth day after the Constitutional Court publishes the final list of approved candidacies, is intended to finance the electoral campaign of candidates for the general elections, which will take place on 24 August.
The process of submitting candidacies to the Constitutional Court by political parties and coalitions of parties ended this Saturday, with the court providing that the final lists of approved candidacies will be published on 16 July.
Of the nine potential candidates for the general elections, only eight scheduled the delivery of candidacies, of which seven have already made their candidacies, having been scheduled for Saturday, the last day, the delivery of the candidacy of the Nationalist Justice Party in Angola (P-NJango ), by Eduardo "Dinho" Chingunji.
The political party Bloco Democrático was, until the beginning of the weekend, the only political force that did not submit its candidacy to the Constitutional Court for this year's scrutiny, having announced, in a statement, the suspension of the militancy of 12 members of the party, who will run on the lists of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), UNITA, the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), the National Patriotic Alliance (APN), the Social Renewal Party (PRS), the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the Humanist Party.
On the 24th of August, Angola holds its fifth general elections, the fourth in a row, after an interregnum, due to the war, between 1992, the year in which the first election was held, and 2008, when the country resumed its electoral process.
