In Angola, civil society organizations publicly express their distrust regarding the Official Electoral Registration, accusing the government of opacity for refusing to disclose details about death data processing and the enrollment process. The group fears that the so-called "ghost votes" and votes from deceased individuals will once again mark the elections scheduled for next year, as reportedly occurred in previous electoral processes.
Luaty Beirão, from the Civic Movement Mudei, criticized in Luanda the lack of transparency in managing the process that aims to register more than 16 million Angolans by March 2027. The activist revealed that in the last two elections, neither he nor his father registered, but both appeared on the electoral rolls. Beirão recalled that when CNE-MAT made available a tool for verifying the rolls, many citizens tested entering data of deceased relatives, all of whom remained in the records.
Teixeira Cândido, journalist and lawyer, questioned the government's refusal to provide information, noting that the law does not classify this process as a state secret. The jurist argued that if there is nothing to hide, citizens who request information about the database should have access to it, and criticized the lack of explanations about how the figure of 16 million citizens was obtained and how many deceased individuals were effectively removed from the rolls.
According to data provided by the government, over one million adult citizens have already updated their data within the framework of the Official Electoral Registration in Angola.
