Africa-Press – Angola. Opposition political parties believe that Angolans continue to be “a statistic without remainder”, in the calculations of an “insensitive” Executive, which “dragged the country into a dead end”, given its erroneous economic and social policies.
In political statements made on the occasion of the presentation of the General State Account report, referring to the year 2023, this Wednesday, 21st, in the National Assembly, the opposition says that the Executive’s balance sheet did not translate into the well-being of citizens, who today face problems with health, education, basic sanitation, hunger and poverty.
UNITA MP Navita Ngolo, who read UNITA’s political declaration, said that the country’s economic structures remain limited because of its dependence on oil.
“An analysis of the main macroeconomic indicators in the justification report allows us to assess that the objectives of national economic growth, prudent management of public finances, reduction of poverty and social exclusion, reduction of supply chain costs and development of human capital were not achieved,” he said.
“The country’s social balance is shamefully negative. The gross birth rate is 36%, while the infant mortality rate is 56%. There is no future for around 15 million children and young people between the ages of zero and 14,” he added.
According to the deputy, the reality on the ground is more dramatic.
“Twenty-three years after the end of the war, Angola has only three doctors for every 10,000 inhabitants and two medical centers for every 100,000 inhabitants.”
“We have already approved several General State Accounts, we have already approved many laws, but without tangible results, without a positive impact on the lives of the majority of people, families and companies”, he added.
In your opinion, the social balance inherent in the 2023 General State Account also reveals that the Government’s disinvestment in the social sector is the main cause of the multidimensional poverty that plagues the country, with a greater incidence in the interior.
“Angolans are tired of suffering and they know what they need to do to end the suffering. Angolans want to change their lives, to elect a new government that the people believe and trust will govern better. And if it does not do so, Angolans will also change that government, because the right to govern Angola belongs to the Angolan people, and not to the governments to whom the people delegate such powers for five-year periods,” he said.
The MPLA, through the voice of its Parliamentary Group leader, Joaquim Reis Júnior, who highlighted improvements in the execution of the 2023 General State Account, called on the opposition to say that the country’s future will not be decided in the “heat of the streets”, but through dialogue.
Joaquim Reis Júnior thus responded to a position taken by the UNITA Parliamentary Group, which recently advocated street demonstrations if there is no consensus on the electoral legislative package being discussed in the National Assembly.
“Conflicts must be resolved through dialogue and not through conflicts,” he added, highlighting that the opposition, in recent times, “has been spreading lies against the actions of the Executive and the courts, distorting the truth.”
“If you want to protect democracy, this is not the way forward,” said the leader of the MPLA Parliamentary Group, stressing that he expects an opposition that presents solutions and not slander.
The leader of the Humanist Party of Angola, Bela Malaquias, said that the Executive went into debt in the name of the people, but it (the Government) did not speak to the people.
“The people continue to be statistics with no remainder in the Executive’s accounts. The money circulated in 2023, but it did not benefit the people”, he said, stressing that the people need accounts that translate into well-being, good education, health, among other improvements.
In your opinion, the hopes of Angolans never enter the Executive’s report.
The 2023 General State Account recorded, according to the Executive, a budget surplus of 235.57 billion kz, a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 1% and a national inflation rate of 20.01%.
The document indicates that in 2023, public debt instruments were issued and redeemed in the domestic market with a net execution worth 2.13 trillion kwanzas, with domestic debt service standing at 4.78 trillion kwanzas and external debt service at around 4.73 trillion.
The Executive closed the 2023 General State Account (CGE 2023) with revenues of 20.33 billion kwanzas and expenses of Kz 20.10 billion.
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