Africa-Press – Angola. The vice-president of the MPLA, Luísa Damião, exhorted, in Luanda, the deputies in the exercise of their functions to contribute with due rigor and competence, in the materialization of the Government Program voted in the General Elections, taking into account the development of the country and, above all, the well-being of Angolan families.
Luísa Damião, who spoke at the opening of the party’s 1st Parliamentary Days, said that the Program adopted in the elections expressed the thinking of the MPLA that must be defended and embraced with competing constructive ideas to increase and reinforce effectiveness.
He stressed that the MPLA Government Program is based on three fundamental axes: Democracy, Modernity and Transparency, Development, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity and Security and Leadership in the international scenario.
Such fundamentals, he explained, constitute pillars of public policies and action in the sense of increasingly strengthening civil society institutions to continue building a more developed, democratic and inclusive Angola, and to consolidate the Democratic State and the rule of law.
Pursue State reform, combat corruption and impunity, develop a harmonious balance in the territory, decentralize Public Administration, decentralize and implement Local Authorities, develop human capital, expanding access to health services, knowledge, technical skills and science is also part of the Program.
In addition, it also includes the promotion of culture and sport, stimulating entrepreneurship, innovation, reducing social inequalities, eradicating hunger and extreme poverty, promoting gender equality and solving multidimensional and transversal challenges to raising quality of life of populations.
Modernize and make the country’s infrastructure more efficient and preserve the environment, ensure macroeconomic stability and support the business sector to accelerate the diversification of the economy, as well as provide for the defense of sovereignty, integrity and national security and promote the Angola’s image and role in the regional and international context are also other axes of public policies within the Government Programme.
Luísa Damião underlined that the first days of the MPLA Parliamentary Group open a space for the exchange of knowledge, both personal and professional and for life, because knowledge is today an ethical, cultural and fundamental value that promotes development and is a heritage of humanity.
“We opened the first parliamentary days of the 2022-2027 legislature with a sense of greater confidence and expectation of a great commitment and performance from the Parliamentary Bench that holds the absolute majority in the National Assembly”, he stressed. , insofar as it has the merit of paying homage to male and female deputies, who ceased their mandate in the IV legislature.
And on behalf of the MPLA leadership and President João Lourenço, Luísa Damião recognized the dedication of the deputies who fight for the interests and desires of the sovereign Angolan people.
Training of deputies
The vice-president of “comrades” underlined that training, right at the beginning of the party’s functions, will contribute to qualify, train and inform deputies about the organization and functioning of the GP MPLA.
He clarified that this action will raise the level of knowledge of parliamentarians about the practice of parliamentary work that aims to debate and, above all, supervise the Executive power.
“Speaking in the National Assembly is necessary to know where the freedom of others begins and ends. It is necessary to speak with urbanity and parliamentary decorum, even if the debate is tense. It is necessary to know how to speak and represent with a patriotic and sovereign sense”, he advocated Luísa Damião defended training as the key, calling on deputies to commit themselves to parliamentary action, observing attendance and punctuality, being, as always, active and productive in the debate at the headquarters of the specialty committees and in the plenary sessions.
“We have a patriotic obligation to give the best of ourselves. This legislature, like the others, will not be much different, but it will demand a lot of discipline from us in the study, reflection and analysis of the documents or, even, in the articulation of the demands of the citizens, in order to continue exercising democracy in depth in its fullness, in harmony with the rights, duties, freedoms and guarantees of citizens”, he warned.
Luísa Damião said that future training courses should include the theme of social networks and enable deputies to remain active on digital platforms, above all, in parliamentary diplomacy.
He added that parliamentary diplomacy is developed by the Assembly’s Friendship Groups around the world, supporting the development of international policies and as a subsidy to the traditional diplomacy exercised by Governments.
“It is one more instrument to strengthen bilateral relations in the context of the globalized world, through the most diverse channels of exchange and instances, mainly, the international assemblies and the Parliamentary Groups of friendship”, he highlighted.
The party’s vice-president invited MPLA’s Parliamentary Group deputies to observe discipline, complementarity, solidarity and mutual help.
He appealed to the spirit of unity and cohesion, which are common principles and values in the MPLA and it will not be different in the way of being in Parliament, always bearing in mind a better representation of the sovereign and in support for the Executive and the President of the Republic who has the great responsibility to implement public and social policies for the well-being of the Angolan people.
Luísa Damião reiterated that the Angolan people went to the polls on 24 August and expressed their will, once again renewing confidence in the MPLA and its leader, President João Lourenço, with an absolute majority to govern for all Angolans, regardless of color, religion, creed or party color.
Under the motto “The role of the Parliamentary Group in defending the political line of the MPLA”, the first parliamentary days ended today, with a tribute to the outgoing deputies.
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