"We are receiving complaints from Lisbon and Porto saying that only two credentials arrived", said David Horácio Junjuvili, stressing that the Portuguese capital is precisely the place where most Angolans residing abroad will vote.
More than 14 million Angolans will choose, on Wednesday, a new president of the Republic and representatives in the National Assembly, in general elections that count, for the first time, with the vote of citizens in the diaspora.
"(In Lisbon) we have 15 delegates on the list and they say they only received two credentials and in Porto we have four and they did not give us any indication if the credentials arrived", said the UNITA official.
"This cannot be understood, because the National Electoral Commission (CNE) was obliged to send all credentials abroad in a timely manner", he criticized.
The UNITA representative also mentioned that only this Monday the credentials were delivered to party delegates in five African countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, South Africa, Namibia and Zambia) and the CNE was asked to deliver them by via digital, a request that, he believes, will be granted and could also be a solution for Portugal.
According to Horácio Junjuvili, the credentials were sent late because UNITA had to replace some delegates after the CNE detected nonconformities, namely the lack of registration in the electoral register of those constituencies.
UNITA also submitted a request to the CNE to excuse members of the Cabinda executive from the presidency of polling stations.
In the letter addressed to the plenary of the CNE, the campaign representative alerts to the fact that the president of the polling stations, a vice provincial governor, provincial secretaries and other distinguished members of the provincial government of Cabinda, activists with relevant notoriety in the campaign and top members of the local MPLA, asking that they be purged from the list of citizens hired by the CNE.
Eight political groups compete for the elections, with more than 200,000 list delegates registered, nationally and abroad, who monitor and supervise the voting and the counting of electoral results.
