The document was approved with 132 votes in favour, 41 abstentions and no vote against.
Cited by Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA), deputy André Mendes de Carvalho, from CASA-CE, justified why his party abstained from voting: "For there to be transparency, fairness and equality in the electoral process, it would be necessary that we, in addition to the points indicated by the President of the Republic, would touch on at least two or three issues. I see no difficulty, for those who in fact proposed to condemn inaugurations during the inaugural campaign, the purchase of votes, who could not accept that there was scrutiny in the municipalities".
Simão Dembo, from UNITA, added that they did not vote "against because the President of the Republic, by returning the law to the National Assembly, gave a remote signal that he would act as President of all Angolans".
"When the legislator rejects and ensures transparency, fairness and electoral truth through municipal and provincial tabulation as elements of control downstream of the tabulation already made at the polling stations, then fairness, transparency and electoral truth continue to equally compromised", he indicated, cited by RNA.
In turn, deputy João Pinto, MPLA, said that "at no time, in our electoral legal model, do we have provincial or municipal legislative bodies", but there is "an organic law for elections that, in the context of general elections, in the tables take place the vote and the partial count which is communicated to the national polling center".
João Lourenço, in a message addressed to parliament that was read by Adão de Almeida, Minister of State and Chief of Staff to the President, congratulated the "hard work of all political formations".
"I appreciate the willingness expressed for frank and open debate, as well as the effort made to seek the broadest possible consensus," he said.
