Luanda – Voter’s registration of Angolan citizens abroad, scheduled for January 2022, will be carried out via the Identity Card (ID), without the issuing of a voter card, the Minister for Territorial Administration, Marcy Lopes said Monday.
The Cabinet minister was speaking at a parliamentary hearing, on the State General Budget (OGE) 2022, with the deputies of the State Administration and Local Power Commission of the National Assembly.
According to the government member, outside the country there will be no issuance of voter cards, “only registration will be made via the Identity Card at Angola’s diplomatic and consular missions abroad.
He said that the launch of voter registration abroad is scheduled for the first half of January 2002, and will run until March 31 of the same year.
Marcy Lopes noted that the Ministry of Justice has 12 fixed posts for issuing ID cards abroad, as well as mobile brigades that travel abroad to process this national identity document at diplomatic missions.
He said that it is planned to increase the number of fixed posts from 12 to 18.
According to Marcy Lopes, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights is reinforcing its capacity to issue the ID card outside the country.
Source: Angola Press News Agency
