The position appears in a letter addressed to some international organizations, presented this Wednesday at a press conference, in which they ask for electoral observers "credible, with experience and international reputation".
"The presence of observers is necessary because in all previous elections, they were not free, fair or transparent. Therefore, the results are always questioned by citizens and opposition parties," said Olívio Nkilumbu, a of the signatories of the charter.
The document, which has 36 subscribers, including activists, journalists, priests and others, was sent at the end of September to the secretariat of the African Union, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP ), to the European Union delegation in Angola and to the Carter Center.
For the signatories, all the prerequisites for free and transparent elections "are not created" in Angola and the Government and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA, in power) "have full control over the management of the process".
"The law makes it possible for the process to be under the tutelage of the ruling party, the press is under the control of the government, the defense and security forces intimidate voters and in the event of electoral disputes, the judiciary is composed of judges from the ruling party and at your service", reads the letter presented to the press.
According to the subscribers, if the referred international organizations accept their request, "care must be taken in choosing the members who will be part of the observer team, because in previous elections there were questionable observer teams".
"Therefore, we ask for observers whose reputation is not subject to suspicion", defends the Angolan civil society.
Asked by journalists about the motivations for the "constant suspicions" of the elections in Angola, Olívio Nkilumbu underlined that only "integrity, justice and electoral truth" should guarantee the credibility of the Angolan electoral process.
"For our process to be smooth, it is necessary the commitment of those who govern and it is the capacity of those who govern to respect democratic principles such as transparency, fairness, and freedom of the process," said the political scientist.
On the one hand, he said, the press "has to be at the service of the process and of the participants in the process, because when you don't have access to the press, one of the competitors has an advantage".
"In other words, when access to the press is not equitable, it is not possible to have a transparent electoral process," he noted.
"If the next elections are won by the MPLA and it is on the basis of integrity, justice and electoral truth that the MPLA wins, if it is UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, in opposition] on the basis of integrity, justice and truth election that UNITA wins, it will be legitimate and will have the legitimacy to govern", he pointed out.
But, he maintained, "when the process is suspicious from the start, during and after, the one that wins has no legitimacy, that's why we see that after electoral processes there are strikes, there are demonstrations".
"How can someone who wins with large margins a year later, there are strikes, there are demonstrations?", asked Olívio Nkilumbu equally.
The next general elections in Angola are scheduled for 2022. At the moment, the unofficial electoral registration is taking place in the country's 18 provinces and the same process should start in January 2022 in Angola's diplomatic and consular missions abroad.
