Angolans will vote in tight race in which main opposition coalition has its best-ever chance of victory, as millions of youth left out of its oil-fuelled booms are expected to express frustration with nearly 50 years of MPLA rule
More than 14.3 million people have registered to vote, with 22,560 eligible to vote outside the country.
Since independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola has been run by the formerly Marxist MPLA, led since 2017 by President Jaoa Lourenco. In a tense run-up to the vote for both president and parliament, UNITA has urged voters to stay near polling stations after voting to reduce the risk of fraud. Russia's ambassador to Angola, Vladimir Tararov, was quoted in the Angolan press in March as praising the country for its neutrality while lambasting UNITA for wanting to show it "stands with the West, the so-called civilised countries".
Lourenco has tried to improve relations with Washington, and just before the elections applied to join a trade agreement with the European Union and southern African states, which has been in force since 2016. Talks start in months.
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