Africa Monitor Intelligence
Angola: Lourenço Forces Party in Re-election as Leader
Faced with constitutional limitations on a new term, JL is determined to control the next Congress and the succession process that should culminate in the 2027 elections. The expected announcement of his re-election bid (AM 1542), in MAY, was followed by a series of maneuvers, interpreted in local political circles as aggressively aimed at securing his re-election.