"The MPLA has not lost the country's capital, when you lose a football match you are still a great team, Luanda is a great political square, a very disputed square, but it is still the MPLA square", said this Friday Bento Bento.
The ruling party, he added, "has the majority of voters, of supporters and it is not for well-known reasons that you will say that the MPLA does not have the capital of the country or its control and it is not in fact the political formation with the role of leadership in the capital".
Bento Bento, Luanda's provincial secretary of the MPLA, was speaking to journalists at the parliament's headquarters, on the sidelines of the investiture ceremony of the 220 deputies elected in the 24 August elections.
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) won the Luanda provincial constituency for the first time, electing three deputies against two from the MPLA.
The MPLA, which won the general elections, elected 124 deputies, against 90 for UNITA, also lost to UNITA in the provincial circles of Cabinda and Zaire.
Regarding Luanda, Angola's largest electoral political square, Bento Bento, who takes office for the fifth parliamentary legislature, said that his party's strategies to redeem the votes lost by UNITA "are already defined".
"By the way, the MPLA has presented its electoral manifesto and for the whole country and for the provinces it has a strategy. Luanda", he stressed.
"Who made the biggest political movements, the biggest rallies, the biggest political demonstrations in Luanda? It was the MPLA. It is necessary not to confuse the soccer match with the league, one thing is the league and another thing is a soccer match", he reiterated the "comrades" politician.
The Social Renewal Party (PRS), the debuting Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) each elected two deputies to the fifth parliamentary legislature.
