The objective is that voters "when they go to the polls to exercise their right to vote, they are not impeded if, in circumstances, one of them is not using the mask", said Quilundo, at the end of an extraordinary session of the plenary of the CNE
In addition to approving the instruction on the possibility of easing biosecurity measures against covid-19, after consulting the national health authorities, the meeting that took place during the morning also aimed at approving the audit report on the technological solution for the general elections and the Computer File of Senior Citizens (FICM).
Angola registered around 100,000 cases of covid-19 until May, of which 1,900 died, with the Government having ceased to present the daily numbers since mid-May, when the country ended the situation of public calamity.
Lucas Quilundo said he was not aware of the complaint by the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) that was delivered this Monday, so he chose not to comment on the matter.
The Humanist Party of Angola this Monday accused the CNE of approving invalid model minutes since they do not indicate the number of voters, compromising "the credibility, transparency and validity of the general elections, [which] are seriously threatened" according to the regulations. published in the Diário da República.
For the PHA, the principle of legality is also at issue "because it grants outsiders the exercise of powers that the law assigns only to members of the CNE" and, in the case of this body, it assigns "only to two of the 17 members" functions that they should be "exercised collectively [...] without any differentiation or discrimination", namely in terms of access to information and circulation at all stages of the electoral process.
