If you bet, 90% of Ana Gomez’s chips will go to the victory of the MPLA – Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Not because of the performance of President João Lorenzo — who failed on many levels, he says — but because of the regime, starting with the electoral process.
Desperate that everything will be the same, the moment when the government denied a “genuine” independent election monitoring mission was decisive because “what’s on the tube is a farce, they’re Kantonga observers,” says a former European deputy. Parliament is already part of many professional missions, including Angola. and explains the rules.
In this regard, Ana Gómez recalls an episode: “In 2012, Durão Barroso, who was president of the European Commission, sent goods to President José Eduardo dos Santos and went to Luanda to say that Angola is a mature democracy, which it is not. The election observers are needed. “The country does not help. Unfortunate events”, he guarantees.
“Portugal’s catch is huge and explains a good part of the corruption in Angola”, he denounced. Ana Gómez says Jono Lorenzo has broken his promises and that corruption can only be fought through changes in the justice system or in the MPLA, the party that supports the government.
“The kleptocracy program established by Jose Eduardo dos Santos leads the family to intervene [eleitoral]Determined by hatred of João Lourenço”. Ana Gómez talks about the rumors of Isabel dos Santos financing the campaign of Adalberto da Costa Junior, the head of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola or UNITA of Tchizé dos Santos. UNITA.
Despite the polls, which “suit all tastes and all wallets”, Ana Gomez believes that many people will vote because it is “a shortcut to the country”.
“Young people” – the majority of the 14 million voters – no longer have the stability of the war” and “they are less vulnerable to the memories of the past that still frighten the elderly”, he recalled, “more aware that they live in a rich country and in poverty, without opportunities.”
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