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    Parliamentary elections were held in Angola on 5 and 6 September 2008, as announced by President José Eduardo dos Santos on 27 December 2007. They were...
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    refused to hold the second round of the presidential election, but organised parliamentary elections in 2008. The MPLA's resultant majority allowed it to adopt...
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    for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has held a majority in the Assembly since Angolan independence in 1975. Multi-party elections were delayed under Jose...
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    Bösl, Anton (2008). Angola's Parliamentary Elections in 2008. A Country on its Way to One-Party-Democracy, KAS Auslandsinformationen 10/2008. http://www...
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    the 2008 parliamentary election, the FNLA received 1.11% of the vote, winning three out of 220 seats. In 1954, the United People of Northern Angola (UPNA)...
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    in the party favoured having the presidential election in 2008, and moving the parliamentary election up by two years instead. He also said that he would...
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    in contemporary Angolan literature, especially in the works of Angolan authors. In 2014, Angola resumed the National Festival of Angolan Culture after a...
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  • Institute on political opposition parties and the 2008 parliamentary elections is a source on Angolan political parties. The study is based on interviews...
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    the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola – Partido do Trabalho), is an Angolan social democratic...
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    parliamentary election and 91.2% for the presidential election. The ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) won both elections;...
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    José Eduardo dos Santos (category 20th-century Angolan people)
    office as President of Angola and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on 21 September. In the first Angolan parliamentary election on 9 November 1980 he...
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    fought alongside the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the Angolan War for Independence (1961–1975) and then against the MPLA in...
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    Record of World Events. 19: 25948. June 1973. Angola: 1980 Single-Party Election EISA Angola IPU Angolan Rebel Leader Agrees to Peace Talks : Africa: Savimbi's...
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    from the party. The PRS won 3.17% of the vote in the September 2008 parliamentary election, winning eight seats out of 220 seats. It performed particularly...
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  • Party of the Angolan Communist Community (in Portuguese: Partido da Comunidade Comunista Angolana) is a political party in Angola. Baptista André José...
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    close election as early parliamentary results come in". Reuters. Retrieved 25 August 2023. "Early results suggest closely fought Zimbabwe parliamentary polls"...
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  • Pitra Neto (category Angolan lawyers)
    12 February 1958) is an Angolan politician, professor and lawyer. Neto joined the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in 1974. He has...
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    Jonas Savimbi (category 20th-century Angolan people)
    was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    Capital of Angola: Luanda Elections in Angola Angolan presidential elections 1992 2009 Angolan parliamentary elections 1980 1986 1992 2008 2012 2017 Political...
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  • Kundi Paihama (category Angolan military personnel)
    Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the September 2008 parliamentary election. He won a seat in this election, in which the MPLA won an overwhelming...
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  • Paulo Lukamba Gato (category Angolan rebels)
    national list in the September 2008 parliamentary election. He was one of 16 UNITA candidates to win seats in the election. Angola in Peace Archived 2007-09-27...
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    Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos (category 21st-century Angolan politicians)
    is an Angolan politician who was the first vice president of Angola from February 2010 to September 2012. He was the prime minister of Angola from 2002...
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  • general elections are held between every three to five years, with presidential elections sometimes attaining six (Mexico and Russia since a 2008 amendment)...
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  • permanent headquarters in Luanda, Angola. After the 2008 parliamentary elections, the first time in 17 years that Angola went to the polls, the MPLA-government...
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    Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August...
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    general election (Angolan Civil War) 1996 Chadian presidential election 1997 Chadian parliamentary election 1997 Cameroonian presidential election 2003 Rwandan...
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    Ovimbundu (category Ethnic groups in Angola)
    this people is now scattered all over Angola. In political terms, the Angolan parliamentary elections of 2008 reflected an important shift in Ovimbundu...
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     Solomon Islands  Spain  Sweden  Thailand  Tuvalu  United Kingdom In a parliamentary republic, the head of government is selected or nominated by the legislature...
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    Carolina Cerqueira (category Angolan politicians)
    is an Angolan politician. She is a former State Minister for Social Affairs and a member of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Since...
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  • Inge; Weimer, Markus (2008). "Opposition Parties and the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Angola". CMI Working Paper. WP 2008:9. National Electoral Commission...
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