Stand and deliver

The election has reinforced the MPLA's dominance and emboldened its leaders to promise an economic revolution

body>The crushing victory of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) in the parliamentary elections on 5-6 September opens the way for veteran party leader President José Eduardo dos Santos to stand again at the presidential election due in 2009 and to change Angola’s constitution at the party’s whim.

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José Eduardo dos Santos, United States, UNITA, down and almost out, Benjamin Bounkoulou, Congo-Brazzaville, Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Isaías Samakuva, Eduardo Kwangana, Jonas Savimbi, Holden Roberto, Jorge Valentim, Dos Santos in the driving seat, Agostinho Neto, French, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Plataforma Nacional da Sociedade Civil Angolana para as Eleições, Comissão Nacional Eleitoral, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, Partido de Renovação Social, Nova Democracia União Eleitoral, Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola, Partido de Apoio Democrático e Progresso de Angola

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