Angolan National Democratic Party
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Political party
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in Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
. The chairman of the party is Geraldo Pereira João da Silva and the general secretary is Pedro João António. In the 1992 presidential election
Elections in Angola
According to the constitution of 1991, Angola elected on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president was elected by the people for a five-year term , by absolute majority - and if no candidate reached absolute majority, there had to be a second turn, with...
the party supported the independent candidate Daniel Julio Chipenda.
In 1997 the party passed through some internal strife, at the time of its first national conference.