"Of course, it is very premature to claim victory, because the MPLA has 52.08 percent and UNITA has 42.98 percent, that is to say that the difference between the two is not more than 9 percent, if there is still 14 percent to be then it is premature (the MPLA) to claim victory", said Osvaldo Mboco, in statements to Lusa.
"We are having a very tight, very close race, and only with the final release of the results will we understand if each political party managed to elect how many deputies and also the winner, because, as you can calculate, a simple majority in Angola constitutes a Government", he maintained.
The National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced this Thursday that the MPLA maintains the lead, with 52.08 percent of the votes, followed by UNITA, with 42.98 percent, when 86.41 percent of the votes in this Wednesday's general election are being counted.
With 77.12 percent of votes cast in Luanda, the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) leads with 62.93 percent of the votes and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) follows in second position with 33.06 percent, CNE spokesman Lucas Quilundo announced this Thursday.
For Osvaldo Mboco, the provisional national results indicate that the MPLA leads by the national circle, which elects 130 deputies, "and it is synonymous that the MPLA will be able to elect more deputies by the national circle compared to other parties".
Each provincial circle, distributed across the country's 18 provinces, elects five deputies each, making a total of 90 deputies. The general elections elect a total of 220 deputies (130 for the national constituency and 90 for the provincial constituency).
UNITA leads the preference of voters in Luanda, the country's largest political square, and the same happens in the province of Zaire, compared to the MPLA, and in Cabinda the dispute between the two is almost balanced.
"In Luanda, there are basically less than 20 percent left to be scrutinized, it is an indicator that we may have UNITA giving 5/2 in the MPLA, and in Zaire it is also the same indicator", observed Osvaldo Mboco.
"With this global number of votes, it means that approximately 14 percent of votes are missing and this percentage is still significant to change the vote that we have provisionally", concluded the political analyst.
The fifth general elections in Angola have perpetuated the dispute between the country's two main parties, the MPLA and UNITA, which are trying to win a majority of the 220 seats in the National Assembly.
Wednesday's elections took place across the country and, for the first time, abroad.
