Angola’s election commission announced that the ruling MPLA party won Angola’s elections, after polling 65% of the votes counted in the provisional results. The candidate of the party, Joao Lourenco now set to succeed longtime President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years.
An election commission official in Luanda said that the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) party had won just about 65% of vote.