Adalberto da Costa Júnior spoke to journalists after the presentation of the electoral manifesto of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Benguela, after being asked about the complaints made on social media about the existence of dead people registered as voters.
For the leader of the "Galo Negro" party, crimes against the Constitution, as well as the violation of electoral law and political parties, are at stake.
"It is by law, the purging of the dead from the lists, it is willful, it is a crime what the Government has done. When a government intentionally commits a crime, (they are) acts of willful misconduct, formally materialized when the minister officially hands over the files with the dead to the National Electoral Commission", he lamented.
Angola holds general elections on the 24th of August, with more than 14 million voters being able to vote, which were determined through the official electoral register.
"We are dealing with a Government that practices illegalities on illegalities with the intention: despair. There are more than three million voters who are there on those lists, dead", criticized the leader, appealing to those responsible for the Government: "they resign because they are not competent to serve Angola".
"The government is not serious, it practices crime in search of a victory for the party that supports it, they are not expecting us to let this go unnoticed", he continued, admitting future actions, which he did not detail.
Justino Pinto de Andrade, leader of the Democratic Bloc that suspended militancy to participate in UNITA's lists, said that "there are reasons to be suspicious, because there is information from the past".
"The way electoral results are tampered with, it may even be that these dead will come to vote after the vote, we are scalded with so much hot water that has been thrown on us", highlighted the politician.
"It is necessary to make it clear that the fairness of elections is not just on the day you vote, it is a whole process since you witness a national political environment that is not open and in which some have more advantages than others. others", noted, on the other hand, Abel Chivukuvuku, number 2 on the list and coordinator of the political project PRA-JÁ Servir Angola.
Stressing that there are "strong indicators of bad faith" and incompetence, Abel Chivukuvuku also underlined: "we will have time to correct it, if the regime so deems it" to "transmit confidence in the process".
UNITA and its main opponent, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), in power since independence, kicked off the electoral campaign on Saturday.
UNITA chose Benguela for its rally, which was chaired by Adalberto da Costa Júnior, while the MPLA preferred Luanda, where President João Lourenço, also president of Angola, spoke on Saturday morning.
