Angola's 2022 election: an unfair contest the ruling MPLA is sure to win

By Justin Pearce, Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch University

Angolans go to the polls on 24 August to vote in parliamentary elections. The leader of the party with the most seats in parliament automatically becomes the president, so this is also in effect a presidential election.

This will be the fourth election since the end of the Angolan civil war in 2002. The three previous post-war polls were marked by a steady decline in the number of people voting for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).…

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