Fourteen million Angolan voters will go to the polls tomorrow to decide the future President of Angola, his vice-president, and a 220-seat parliament.
The current Head of State, João Lourenço, of the MPLA, and the 60-year-old engineer Adalberto da Costa Júnior, of UNITA, are the main presidential candidates, in the elections considered to be the most keenly contested in Angola.
The MPLA has been in power in Angola since independence in 1975. The current president, João Lourenço, is trying to be reelected for a second 5-year term, but Unita has never been as popular as it is now.
Unita, on the other hand, which is led by Adalberto Costa Júnior, is campaigning among younger voters saying that it intends to create jobs and guarantee stability in times of global crisis.
Data from an Afrobarometer opinion poll, cited by the Brazilian portal GLOBO, indicates that, until last Sunday, half of Angolan voters had not yet decided for whom to vote.
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