Uíge – At least 15,000 new voters will be registered during the updating phase of the electoral registration in northern Uíge province, whose official launching act was chaired on Friday by the minister of Territory Administration, Bornito de Sousa.

The 16 registering entities of Uíge are ready so that the activity takes place without any constraints throughout the province, in a process that involves 141 operators, being 29 heads of brigades and 112 brigade men, according to the coordinator of the Provincial Executive Commission for the Electoral Process, Avelino Martins.

The site that hosted the launching act of the updating of the electoral registration received several hundreds of young people who want to own voter’s card, so that they can exert their citizenship's rights in the forthcoming elections.

Mariana Nicolau Costino, who turned 18 this year, was the first one to be registered by the brigade located in the municipal headquarter of Uíge, witnessed by the minister of Territory Administration, Bornito de Sousa, government officials, supervisors of the National Electoral Commission, supervisors of the political parties, and traditional authorities.

Speaking to Angop, Mariana Costino, whose voter’s card she received from the minister of Territory Administration, expressed her satisfaction for being the first to register, and for knowing that in 2012 she will be able to vote in the party and president of her "heart".