Africa-Press – Angola. The plenary of the National Assembly (AN) rejected, this Thursday, the request of the parliamentary group of UNITA, which wanted a protest vote “to the acts committed against the class of journalists”.
The document was vetoed during the 2nd Extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature of the National Assembly.
Deputy Rui Falcão, from the MPLA, said, by the way, that his party’s parliamentary group voted against the document, on the understanding that the opposition intended, with this act, only to make political use.
He noted that his party is in solidarity with the victims of all the crimes that occur daily in the country, for whom, if the opposition wanted to have a serious debate on the issue, it should not do so in a point prior to the agenda, but take the issue to the meeting of parliamentary leaders to register as a point and discuss everything.
“We do not engage in this type of behavior that only aims to make political use of circumstances, if we want to debate journalism we will discuss it in a deep, serious way and draw conclusions. We are open to any type of debate, but not to political hypocrisy”, he stressed. .
In contrast, deputy Albertina Navita Ngolo, from UNITA, was indignant at the fact that the MPLA parliamentary group had voted against the request for a protest vote, as she said, to the acts committed against the journalistic class.
“We have been insisting on this protest vote since the previous plenary, because we believe that we are representatives of the people in the National Assembly, which should not be silent about the acts committed against the journalistic class, which takes the work of Parliament to all houses and to the world”, he pointed out.
According to the deputy, the National Assembly needs to send a message of comfort and solidarity to the journalistic class.
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