Africa-Press – Angola. The Constitutional Court is in a position to give reliability and compliance to the processes of political parties’ candidacies for the next election scheduled for August, with the reception, yesterday, of the Computer File of Larger Citizens (FICM).
The instrument, which contains data on citizens of voting age, was delivered to the counselor judge of the Constitutional Court (TC), Laurinda Cardoso, by the president of the National Electoral Commission (CNE), Manuel Pereira da Silva.
The file, he said, will allow the Constitutional Court to be in better conditions to validate the processes of candidacies to be submitted to the TC by political parties.
“In the process of preparing for the necessary conditions for the holding of the General Elections, several bodies intervene, including the Constitutional Court, which is responsible, under the terms of current legislation, for the reception and appreciation of candidacies”, he stressed. During the ceremony, marked by the plenary of the CNE and the advisory judges of the Constitutional Court, Laurinda Cardoso highlighted that, from this moment on, the institution that presides over it is also in a position to start processing the operational tests of the systems.
“We are, from the point of view of creating technical conditions, better prepared to meet the deadlines defined in the general schedule of the Constitutional Court, which will print activities for the electoral process”, he added.
For Laurinda Cardoso, yesterday’s act represented the highest point in the interoperability of institutions, through the National Electoral Commission.
He reinforced that the interaction between both bodies does not make them lose sight of the autonomy of each. He said that, on the contrary, he brings to the table the matter and the increasingly pressing need for greater articulation between the various institutions that intervene in certain processes, such as the electoral process.
The counselor judge praised the fact that the file was delivered before the date, scheduled only for the first week of May.
“Shortly afterwards, the process of preparing the Elections begins and, in this, the Constitutional Court will be in a position to proceed with the presentation of the candidacies. And until then, it is important that the technical and technological means are in operational conditions”, he explained.
Before delivering the file, the president of the National Electoral Commission clarified that it is a provisional instrument, because the definitive one will be made available ten days after the General Elections are called by the President of the Republic.
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