The TC's advisory judges dismissed the claims of the largest opposition party – which filed a precautionary measure and an action to challenge the distribution of commissioners in the CNE approved by the MPLA parliamentary majority, in two separate rulings, which Lusa consulted.
In the first, Ruling No. 990/2025, regarding the precautionary measure that UNITA filed to try to suspend the vote on the parliamentary resolution on the composition of the CNE, the court declared the action dismissed due to “supervening uselessness of the dispute”, since the resolution had been voted on in the meantime.
In the second ruling (No. 994/2025), the plenary session of the court unanimously rejected the action to challenge Resolution No. 118/24 of 5 December, which sets the number of members of the CNE per party or coalition, considering that “there is no violation of the Constitution or the Law”.
The decision in question allocates nine seats to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), four to UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) and one representative appointed by each of the other three parties with seats in parliament: the Social Renewal Party (PRS), the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA).
UNITA contested this distribution, claiming that it violated the principles of institutional balance and proportionality, considering that the opposition, as a whole, should have more representation, taking into account its overall electoral expression and not just the number of individual parliamentary seats.
The CNE is the body responsible for organizing, executing and supervising electoral processes, and is composed of 17 members appointed by the National Assembly, the President of the Republic, political parties and civil society.
