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Civic movements report incidents at polling stations

Videos shared by civic movements and Angolan activists recorded this Thursday several incidents and irregularities in polling stations across the country.

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The Mudei Civic Movement reports, through its Twitter account, the detention of a civic activist in the province of Zaire for photographing the summary at the headquarters of the municipality of Cuimba, later released.

At polling station 61, in Luanda, the president did not want to publish the summary minutes "and left with the police without publishing the minutes", reports the movement.

Mudei also denounced the failure to post summary minutes at five polling stations in Luau, Moxico province, where a civic activist who was photographing summary minutes was also detained.

According to Mudei, the same thing happened in Uíge.

A video shared by Florindo Chivukute, director of the organization Friends of Angola, shows heated emotions at a polling station in Kilamba Kiaxi (Luanda), with shouts of "fraud", with a transparent ballot box being removed under police protection .

"Civilian car is taking the votes", shout the people.

In another video, also at Kilamba Kiaxi, a few dozen people sing the anthem and applaud "the time is now", the slogan of the candidacy of Adalberto da Costa Júnior, leader of UNITA, in the 1527 assembly, after an impasse in the display of the minutes.

The VOA portal, the website of the Voz da América radio, spoke to a member responsible for the polling station on Avenida Lenine who said he had been ordered by the CNE not to post the summary minutes.

"We are under a lot of pressure from the CNE", confessed a member of the polling station, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals.

The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) held a press conference in which the number two on the list, Abel Chivukuvuku, said that provisional data collected from Wednesday's elections point to a victory for the party.

"Our polling centers [give] clear provisional indicators of UNITA's tendency to victory in all provinces of our country", said Chivukuvuku, indicating that, in the municipalities of Luanda province, the ruling party (Popular Movement for Liberation de Angola, MPLA) won only in one municipality.

Moments earlier, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced different data, with a third of the votes counted, which, according to the authorities, indicate a victory for the MPLA with 60.65 percent of the votes.

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