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Angolan Electoral Observatory considers actions by competitors on the same day inconvenient

The president of the Angolan Electoral Observatory, Gabriel Mbilingi, considered this Wednesday the holding of electoral actions by the main political forces of the country competing for the general elections of 24 August on the same day.

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According to Gabriel Mbilingi, who was speaking at the end of a meeting with the president of the Constitutional Court, Laurinda Cardoso, the Angolan citizen still does not have a deep-rooted democratic culture, so "it is not convenient for these demonstrations to take place on the same day".

"Of course they have that right, they can do that, but that's when it would be prudent not to put it on the same day", said Gabriel Mbilingi, Archbishop of Lubango, who introduced himself to the President of the Constitutional Court at the meeting.

On Saturday, the three largest political forces in the country, competing in the August 24 general elections, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), in the expiring mandate, will carry out actions in the province of Luanda.

Gabriel Mbilingi said he hopes that citizens, especially voters and non-voters of Luanda who participate in these demonstrations, "do not make it a space to fight each other and even to despise each other".

According to the president of the Electoral Observatory, any incident would be the revelation that people are not following what is the reiterated disposition of the competing parties, which in their mass acts have been appealing for harmony and peace.

For Gabriel Milingi, it is quite regrettable "and it does not help to create a peaceful electoral environment", when the leaders, even in this pre-campaign phase, "already have a language that tends to vitiate what is the competence of those responsible for the parties competitors".

The prelate reiterated the appeal that the main leaders of the competing parties should be "very careful and responsible for not causing the electoral climate to be undermined from the outset by the messages they send and even by the lack of respect that they have in relation to competing parties".

"The appeal has already been made and it is in this sense that I am repeating it today (...), that they have to moderate the language, they have to be the first responsible for creating an environment that allows the elections to be really a democratic party", he underlined.

Angola will hold its fifth general election on 24 August, in which 13 political parties are running, five of which are affiliated, with more than 14 million voters.

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