Angola’s first provisional results show MPLA wins election

LUANDA (Reuters) – Provisional results from vote counting in Angola’s general election indicate the ruling party MPLA, which has been in power for nearly five decades, holds a strong lead over the main opposition party, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) said on Thursday.

With 33% of the votes counted, CNE said the first provisional results showed the MPLA, led since 2017 by President Joao Lourenço, who is seeking a second five-year term, garnered 60.65% of the vote, and UNITA got 33.85%.

(Reporting by Catarina Demony in Luanda; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)