Opposition kicks over results coming in for the MPLA, a party in power since Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975 Ballot counting was underway in Angola on Thursday in a tense atmosphere after provisional results from a parliamentary election gave the ruling former Marxist party a strong lead and the opposition dismissed them as unreliable. Election officials said in the early hours of Thursday that preliminary results from Wednesday’s election showed the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), in power for nearly five decades, had garnered…
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