MPLA Unsurprisingly Elects dos Santos as Leader of the Party

Sunday, August 21, 2016

In what is a totally unsurprising move, Angola’s ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) elected the country’s President Jose Eduardo dos Santos for another term as leader of the party.

Dos Santos, the sole nominee, won 2,543 votes, or 99.6%, MPLA spokesman Manuel Rabelais said after its electoral convention in the capital, Luanda.

Angola holds its next parliamentary election in 2017 and the leader of the winning party will become president. Dos Santos has said he would step down in 2018.

While there was a bit of speculation that dos Santos would refrain from participating, he was the sole nominee and won 99.6% of the votes.

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