Angola's main opposition party said on Thursday it filed a case with the constitutional court to seek the annulment of last week's election in which the ruling MPLA was declared the winner.
After the most closely fought election since independence from Portugal in 1975, the electoral commission declared the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola the winner, prolonging its nearly five decades of uninterrupted rule and handing President Joao Lourenco a second term.
"The MPLA did not win the election... we have been in peace for 20 years, and we now need to embrace a true democratic rule of law," UNITA leader Adalberto Costa Junior said in an address to the nation streamed on his Facebook page. UNITA decided to take the matter to court after its complaints were dismissed by the commission on Tuesday.
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