Angola: Parties and coalitions registered for 2008 National Assembly election

Updated July 2008

Registration and the 2008 election

Formal registration of parties for participation in elections is undertaken by the Constitutional Court ("Tribunal Constitucional" in terms of criteria laid down in Article 5 of Law 2/2005 of 1 July 2005, informally referred to as "the Law of Political Parties" (see Party registration for more information). Several parties and coalitions were refused registration because they failed to meet the legal requirements (see Tribunal Constitucional 2008 in "References" for a list of applicants).

The National Electoral Commission (Comissão Nacional Eleitoral, CNE) maintains a list of all political, whether registered for elections or not. In 2007 the CNE listed 138 parties (see CNE 2008 in "References"), only a some of which applied to the Constitutional Court for registration for the 2008 election, while others registered as part of a coalition.

Campaign code of conduct

Campaigning by political parties is governed by a code of conduct that is legally binding. See Code of conduct for more information.

Parties registered for 2008

The following parties were registered by the Constitutional Court.

Parties are arranged by percentage votes obtained in the last (1992) National Assembly elections (see Elections 1992: National Assembly results). The four parties and coalitions that did not take part in 1992 are arranged alphabetically at the end of the table.

Party	Leaders	Founding
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola	José Eduardo Dos Santos António Agostinho Neto (d 1979)	1956
União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) Union for the Total Independence of Angola	Isaías Henriques Ngola Samakuva Paulo Lukamba "Gato" António Sebastião Dembo (d February 2002) Jonas Savimbi (d 22 February 2002)	10 March 1966
Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (FNLA) National Front for the Liberation of Angola	Ngola Kabangu Álvaro Holden Roberto (d August 2007)	1957
Partido Liberal Democrático de Angola (PLD) Liberal Democratic Party of Angola	Anália de Victória Pereira	November 1991
Partido de Renovação Social (PRS) Social Renewal Party	Dr Eduardo Kuangana (sometimes: Kwangana or Cuangana) & António Muachicungo	18 November 1990
Partido Renovador Democrático (PRD) Democratic Renewal Party	Luís da Silva dos Passos António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes	1977?
Angola Democrática - Coligação (AD-Coligação) Democratic Angola - Coalition	Evidor Quiela	1992
Partido da Aliança da Juventude, Operários e Camponeses de Angola (PAJOCA) Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola	Alexandre Sebastião André Sebastião Miguel Tetembwa	May 1991
Partido Democrático para Progreso - Aliança Nacional Angolano (PDP-ANA) Democratic Party for Progress - Angolan National Alliance	Sadiangani Bimbi Mfulumpinga Nlandu Victor (d July 2004)	1991
Frente para a Democracia (FPD) Front for Democracy	Nelso Pestana	1992
Fórum Fraternal Angolano Coligação (FOFAC) Angolan Fraternal Forum Coalition
Partido de Apoio Democrático e Progresso de Angola (PADEPA) Democratic and Progress Support of Angola	Carlos Alberto de Andrade Leitão	1994
Nova Democracia (ND) New Democracy
Plataforma Política Eleitoral Political Electoral Platform

Table source

ANGOLA PRESS 2008.

References

ANGOLA PRESS 2008 "Listas de concorrentes às legislativas são entregues à Comissão Eleitoral", 29 July, [www] http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia.asp?ID=638352 [opens new window] (accessed 29 Jul 2008).

CNE 2008 "Partidos", [www] http://www.cne.ao/partidos.cfm [opens new window] (accessed 29 Jul 2008).

TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL 2008 "Relação de Partidos e Coligações que apresentaram as listas de Candidatos para as Eleições Legislativas de 5 de Setembro de 2008", [www] http://www.tribunalconstitucional.ao/PartyList.aspx?IDM=59&IDLang=1