It was a state wedding, with authentic figures of State who started on Friday and only ended on Sunday, in Luanda.
This is the wedding party for the daughter of Angolan general Leopoldino do Nascimento – better known as Dino and one of Isabel dos Santos’s usual business partners, as is the case with Unitel, of which each holds 25% -, which featured a vast list of extravagances and prominent figures, among them the former vice-president Manuel Vicente.
The party was registered in several clips of video, which in total last two minutes, circulated on social networks and which since its publication are giving rise to talk in Angola.
In one of them, General Dino is seen taking his daughter Denise to the altar where Danilo Pitra Costa, the ex-minister and current MPLA deputy António Pitra Costa Neto, is waiting, as they walk down a mirrored glass corridor .
Right after that, you can see the moment when the former Vice President Manuel Vicente greets General Dino (your friend and business partner) and your wife. In the background, the bride receives help around a second dress – all of this is recorded by the cameras of a film crew.
Next, there are also images of the glass of water, in which the bride and groom appear hand in hand and facing the guests at the same time that a back is projected on their back. huge spectacle of videomapping more than a minute. At this point, the bride appears to already have a third dress.
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The images show General Dino taking the bride to the civil ceremony and the presence of the former vice president of the republic, Manuel Vicente (Religious ceremony) pic.twitter.com/lZ0tm9RN76– Xé – Agora Aguenta (@xe_agora) February 16, 2020
The wedding also featured Asian masseuses, who circulated around the water glass enclosure, assisting the most tired guests.
New millionaire wedding in Angola, amount spent 3 million dollars, equipment, technicians and imported technology, invited with the right to Thai masseuses, February 2020, Garland of the son of general Dino, from Angola. Hornets are not afraid of any Angolans! pic.twitter.com/oQGeexnu4y
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It is a marriage of which little is known. The speculation about the amount spent by the families of the bride and groom is wide, with figures ranging from 3 to 5 million euros to be discussed on social networks. Other data are also unknown, such as the number of guests.
What is said, however, is that one of the guests will have been the President of Angola, João Lourenço, and your family. According to the Angolan website Club-K, “The Lourenço family decided not to be present”.
The extravagance of that moment is being commented on by various spheres of Angolan society, including by some within the MPLA. Also according to Club-K, one of them was the deputy Paulo de Carvalho, who took over in December the parliamentary seat of former deputy Tchizé dos Santos, the daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos who was expelled from the party and lost her place in the National Assembly.
“The spectacle of the glass of water, it is said, exceeded the limit reached by the wedding in September last year,” he said, in an allusion to the wedding of the daughter of the president of the National Assembly, also of the MPLA, which took place in October 2019. and that it will have cost 2 million US dollars, that is, 1.85 million euros. At that time, President João Lourenço was criticized not only for going to the wedding but also for sponsoring, together with his wife, the economist Ana Lourenço, the bride. The groom was sponsored by General Dino.
“It demonstrates that there is a competition between the New Yorker elite to demonstrate who can do more”, wrote that deputy, referring that in this case “the ostentation of luxury seeks to overcome the barrier of the imaginable”.
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