Ndonda Nzinga told Lusa news agency that Nimi a Simbi is ahead, with 303 votes, of Lucas Ngonda, the outgoing president who ran for reelection, with seven points of difference.
According to Ndonda Nzinga, Fernando Pedro Gomes is the third most voted candidate of the congress, in which Tristão Ernesto and Carlitos Roberto, son of the late FNLA founding leader, Holden Roberto, also ran for the leadership of the party.
The spokesman for the congress said that the final results should be announced later today (Monday), as well as the members of the party's Central Committee.
Ndonda Nzinga stressed that the results of the provinces of Bié, Huambo, Moxico, Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul are still pending.
In the conclave, which was held under the slogan "FNLA, United in Diversity We Shall Win", 1459 delegates participated, and the same was held in person and virtually.
This is the second congress that this historic party, one of the three movements of the Angolan liberation struggle, which for several decades has been facing an internal crisis, has held in less than a month. The first took place between August 16 and 18, where Pedro Dala, former secretary-general of the FNLA, was elected president.
About this congress, Lucas Ngonda, also a member of the National Assembly, announced that he would impugn the act for being illegal.
"We are in a state of law, he did what he did and I have the right to reestablish the legality of things, we will impugn, because it is an illegal congress", said Lucas Ngonda at the time, in statements to Lusa.
Known as the party of the "brothers", the FNLA was founded more than half a century ago by the historical leader Holden Roberto, but contrary to the weight of the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the largest opposition party, it currently has only one member of parliament.
Lucas Ngonda, harshly contested by party militants, who blame him for the poor performance of the political force in recent years, was confirmed by the Constitutional Court in 2011 as president of the FNLA, based on the results of a congress held in 2004, in which he was elected first vice-president of the party.
