Africa-Press – Angola. The parliamentary group of UNITA reiterated, this Wednesday, the intention of taking to Parliament a legal file aimed at the removal of the President of the Republic.
At a press conference, the president of UNITA’s parliamentary group, Liberty Chiaka, said that the party is acting in accordance with the Constitution and the parliamentary regulations, having considered it to be a normal accountability process, whose date for entry into the National Assembly could be known in the near future.
The opposition party points out, among other allegations, alleged violations of the Constitution and interference in the legislative and judicial powers, by the holder of the Executive Power.
According to the leader of the parliamentary group, the deputies should hear and analyze the facts alleged in the eventual commission to be created under the terms of article 284 of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly.
“It is not UNITA’s parliamentary group that will challenge the governance of the President of the Republic and promote his dismissal, because it does not have constitutional competence to do so”, he stressed.
He added that “only the people, on the initiative of a third of their representatives and approval of two thirds, in the National Assembly, can remove the President, because sovereignty resides in the people and not in the political parties”.
By imperative of article 284.o, after the creation of the eventual commission (being its composition in accordance with the rules of proportional representation), this prepares the opinion report on the accusation and dismissal of the PR.
This is followed by discussion and voting at an extraordinary plenary meeting, pursuant to numbers 5 and 6 of article 284 of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly, and only considered approved if it has the favorable vote of two thirds of the deputies in office, he said. during the meeting.
By the way, in a press conference held on the 20th of July, the MPLA considered this action by UNITA a “strategy of taking power outside the institutional and formal political framework”.
At the time, the MPLA secretary for Information, Rui Falcão, said that the seriousness of the accusations against the President of the Republic demonstrates that UNITA has a subversive agenda and political immaturity and intends to create chaos in the State institutions.
According to Rui Falcão, the strategy of creating a climate of institutional instability has been applied with permanent recourse to the discredit of State institutions and the attempt to create a political framework that justifies the popular uprising and the rise of UNITA to the exercise of power. , without the necessary democratic legitimacy.
According to Rui Falcão, UNITA never had the courage to assume that the MPLA won in 143 of the 164 municipalities in the country and that, in 10 provinces, the MPLA won in all municipalities, namely in Bié, Huambo, Huíla, Namibe, Cunene , Moxico, Lunda Sul, Cuanza Norte, Cuando Cubango and in Malanje.
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