President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was poised to extend his 33-year rule, as his party took a hefty lead on Saturday in this week's vote, despite frustrations among the poor at being left out of Angola's oil boom.With more than half the ballots counted, his People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) took 74 percent of the vote from Friday's general elections.
The main opposition Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) was a distant second with nearly 18 percent, and the new Casa party in third with 4.5 percent, the National Electoral Commission said.