"I can and must govern with all the legitimacy that the voters conferred on the MPLA and its candidate. The opposition contests, but there are adequate institutions to make this contestation. Let them do it", said João Lourenço, the re-elected President with an absolute majority. , according to the results announced this Monday by the National Electoral Commission (CNE).
"The law provides for these situations, has deadlines and we will wait for what, in this case, the Constitutional Court, in its guise of an electoral court, will say about the opposition's contestation", said the MPLA leader, in a speech at the headquarters of the party that was entitled to questions from journalists.
Questioned by the Lusa agency with the fall in the MPLA votes and the contestation of the main opposition party, João Lourenço minimized: "We have the legitimacy to govern alone, we don't need to make any 'geingonça'", in an allusion to the PS agreement with the PCP and Bloco de Esquerda in the recent past in Portugal.
"'Gingonças' are made when the winning party does not have enough votes to govern alone. If you're talking about a 'gadget', it's better to forget it because there won't be a 'gadget'", replied João Lourenço.
“Any competitor not only wants more but wants everything, but life is not quite like that, so I am satisfied with the results that Angolan voters wanted to give the MPLA party and its candidate”, he said.
The MPLA had a strong fall in many provinces and lost the Luanda circle, but João Lourenço preferred to insist that his party has an absolute majority and conditions to govern.
“We won these elections unequivocally, these elections were general elections, they were not provincial, regional, municipal elections and much less municipal elections. Therefore, what was at stake, in dispute, was the place of President of the Republic and the seats of deputies in parliament. Only these two figures were in dispute,” he explained.
Of these elections, “the MPLA candidate won and the President of the Republic from now on is the president of the MPLA”, summarized João Lourenço, considering that the result (124 mandates in 220 seats) constitutes an “absolute majority, which as the word itself means, there is no shadow of a doubt”.
On stage were several MPLA leaders and government officials, almost all with party props, in a party already prepared but rehearsed shortly before João Lourenço arrived, just one hour after the CNE's final results were announced.
During the preparations, on the platform, advisors made sound tests using words like “victory” and an animator rehearsed the slogans: “MPLA victory! Victory João Lourenço!”
