Luanda – The National Patriotic Alliance (APN), a party without a parliamentary seat, on Monday submitted its candidacy to the Constitutional Court (TC), for the general elections to be held on 24 August this year, in Angola.
The party founded and led by Quintino António Moreira is the third political party to submit the list of candidates for President of the Republic, Vice-President of the Republic and deputies (MPs), after MPLA and CASA-CE.
MPLA, the ruling party, formalized its candidacy on 8 June, with a list of 355 potential deputies, followed by CASA-CE electoral coalition, on 15 June.
In the candidacy file delivered by its representative Tiago Soares, to the director of the Constitutional Court Office of the Political Parties, Mauro Alexandre, APN proposes Quintino Moreira as its candidate for the Presidency of the Republic and Ana Patrícia da Gama for Vice-President.
In the last general elections, in 2017, the APN was the least voted party with 0.5% of the votes, an insufficient result to elect a single member of parliament (MP) but enough to escape the extinction of the party.
The APN was founded by Quintino Moreira in 2015, almost two years after the extinction of New Democracy – Electoral Union (ND), a coalition of six political parties that won two MPs in the 2008 parliamentary ballot contested by 14 competitors.
The New Democracy – Electoral Union (ND), also founded by Quintino Moreira and mainly made up of young dissidents from the National Liberation Front (FNLA) – was one of 19 political parties dissolved by the TC in 2013 for not having achieved the minimum of 0.5% in the previous year of elections.
Meanwhile, at the time, 48 other political parties were also extinguished for not having participated in elections for two consecutive times, in accordance with the Law on Political Parties.
Source: Angola Press News Agency