Africa-Press – Angola. The MPLA Parliamentary Group highlighted, this Thursday, the importance of creating a deep and mature debate with other political forces for the production of consensus in the hemicycle.
In his quarterly political statement, deputy Kilamba Van-Dúnem considered, however, normal that the parliamentary majority has its strategy and vision, which were endorsed in the August 2022 elections.
“The MPLA, with the responsibility it has in this house of laws, cannot let another more structuring issue pass by (…), such as employment”, he pointed out.
The deputy recalled the fact that the General State Budget (OGE) 2023 was approved in the National Assembly with votes from other political formations with a parliamentary seat, but “with the usual negative repetition of UNITA”.
According to the MPLA deputy, it is discernible on the part of the largest opposition party the difficulty of dealing with its condition and living with its own decision, for whom UNITA should define itself, “whether it wants to be a protest party or a party that aspires to be government”.
“(…) Parties committed to the State do not repeatedly make the OGE unfeasible and make politics based on populist statements”, he stressed.
For him, the Law that approved the OGE 2023 is in line with the MPLA Executive program approved by the people in the 2022 general elections.
He noted that the governance program for the five-year period 2022-2027, which is entering its first year of implementation, is in line with the objectives of sustainable development.
He added that it envisages the promotion of employment, housing, national production, health, education, urban planning and land use planning.
Its permanent unfeasibility, he said, “is not, therefore, an instrument that should make the leaders of the opposition proud”.
According to the MPLA deputy, it is necessary to discuss issues that aim to improve the living conditions of Angolans, food production, increased production of electricity and improvement of the production system, the education and health system, protection families, particularly the most vulnerable.
In her view, the most legitimate concerns of young people, women’s empowerment, food security, national security, the fight against climate change, should be everyone’s concern.
“The MPLA parliamentary group considers these to be the current national concerns and it is no coincidence that the precautions foreseen in the Executive’s program are supported by the MPLA”, he expressed.
“Those who oppose the OGE 2023 deliberately omit what this instrument projects, through structural programs, programs that will be able to reduce a large percentage of unemployed people, and in turn create more inclusion and social cohesion”, he said.
He made it known that the decrease in the unemployment rate can be interpreted in the 2023 OGE, which plans to make available to the banking sector the equivalent of more than one billion US dollars, to finance Production Promotion Plans such as Planagrão, Plan Fisheries and the Livestock Plan.
According to Deputy Kilamba Van-Dúnem, “UNITA, disturbed by not having seen all its contributions received, unfolded in numerous public declarations, which were not welcomed by all those who want to see the country very close to the development stage “.
In turn, UNITA, in the voice of deputy Navita Ngolo, who harshly criticized the government’s acts, again insisted on the need for the institutionalization of municipalities in the country’s 164 municipalities.
He expressed his disquiet in relation to the intention of the new political-administrative division of the country, which, in his view, “only serves to postpone the realization of the autarchies by those who govern”.
“Angola’s development cannot be stranded in the labyrinths of the intentions and interests of a group to the detriment of the interests of the majority”, said deputy Navita Ngolo.
On the Bill of Law for legislative authorization on the amendment of the tax regime applicable to the oil concession in the maritime zone of Cabinda, he noted that, despite this intention to try to improve the business environment in the oil sector of Cabinda, to encourage local investment, “it reflect on the constant requests for authorizations made in this context without much justification, whose history of management of the resources that come from it has not been transparent”.
UNITA was in favor of the Continental Tripartite Free Trade Zone and recommended that the Executive embrace commitments to improve social indices, such as access to education, health, among others.
On the other hand, the leader of the PHA, Bela Malaquias, defended a different treatment of women in the Proposed Amendment to the General Labor Law.
According to the deputy, the specificity of women requires a maternity leave of six months, “for the physical and psycho-emotional health of the mother and child, for whom, the specificity of women also demands, quite vehemently, “menstrual leave of five days of each month”.
Deputy Nimi Ya Simbi, from the Grupo Patentear Misto FNLA-PRS, defended more dignity for former combatants, with an increase in the values of their survivor’s pension.
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