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Elections: CNE does not receive “superior orders” and parallel vote counting “is illegal”

The National Electoral Commission (CNE) said that it “does not receive orders from above” and that it acts “in strict compliance with the law”, referring that parallel counting of votes, promoted by civil society and opposition parties, “is illegal”.

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"The CNE does not receive orders from above, this body acts only under the terms of the law, in terms of strict compliance with the Constitution and current legislation", replied CNE commissioner João Damião, when questioned by journalists.
João Damião, who was speaking about the CNE and its local bodies, during a 'workshop' aimed at journalists, in Luanda, also said that the law does not allow parallel counting of votes.

"The law does not allow parallel counting and only the CNE has control of the more than 26,000 polling stations and there are some of these polling stations where political parties do not go there", shot the official.

Some opposition political parties and social society organizations publicly promised to make a parallel count of votes in the August 24 general elections and the issue was raised at this meeting.

Regarding parallel counting, "already being promoted by parties and civil society, public law has a characteristic, what the law does not provide for cannot be called into action, the law does not provide for parallel counting", said João Damião. If the law does not provide for parallel counting, he stressed, "nobody can do it."

The party "can collect all its minutes, delivered by the delegates on the list, to check with the data released by the CNE, and if they do not correspond, complain to the CNE", he explained.

"And depending on the answer given to you, if you are not satisfied, file a dispute with the Constitutional Court, with all the probative elements, which are the minutes", he stressed.

The commissioner recalled that in the 2017 elections there were complaints from some political parties, "who said they had carried out a parallel count and in that count they complained that the CNE had allocated fewer votes". "How many minutes did these parties submit to the CNE? There were no more than 20 and many of them erased", he pointed out.

The allegations of fraud, argued the also master of law, "have only been allegations to create facts, because there is no presentation in court of files with all the evidentiary elements".

João Damião also denounced the existence of "specific movements, eager to destroy the electoral process", which will be "removing the couplets from polling stations and are putting them in cemeteries, trees and are releasing on social networks".

The CNE "did not map any cemetery", he assured. "In the geography of the places where the polling stations will work, we don't have them in cemeteries, in public institutions, in police units or in churches," he added.

"Basically, they are acts of malefactors who want to discredit the process, which is why the media must denounce these practices", considered the national commissioner of the CNE.

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