Elections to the National People's Assembly in Angola 1980
The 1980 elections to the National People's Assembly in Angola were sham elections . Only the candidates from the only legal party in the then one-party state of Angola , the Marxist-Leninist state party Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) , were on the ballot papers .
In September 1980, the new President José Eduardo dos Santos made elections to a National People's Assembly possible through a constitutional amendment . A system of indirect elections and candidate-finding by committees guaranteed that only candidates who were acceptable to the state party could be elected.
Individual evidence
- ^ Elections in Angola ( en ) africanelections.tripod.com. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
- ^ Angola: 1980 Single-Party Election ( en ) eisa.org.za. Archived from the original on October 15, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
