By Raúl Diniz
Africa-Press – Angola. The MPLA has stopped in its tracks. Today, history shows that the party that (mis)governs the country has completely lost all credibility and popular acceptance. The party’s current situation is heartbreaking. There is nothing more that can be done to put the party back on the right track.
When a party uses corrupt, sketchy journalists of international caliber to try to reverse the unpopularity that the MPLA and its president suffer, it turns the whole situation into a desperate and very dangerous one.
The most absurd thing was hearing from João Lourenço that he is in a position to choose and nominate the next president. Furthermore, the MPLA president claims he is in a privileged position not only to choose the future president but also to indicate the path his successor should follow.
It’s, in fact, one absurdity after another. This president’s current situation is becoming increasingly untenable for his continued presence in the Upper City.
Throughout the terrifying and cursed 50 years of independence, Angola has never had a president who governed for everyone.
Unfortunately for the noble people, the presidential figures joined, on that occasion, tiny groups of enlightened MPLA figures to together obstruct the suffering people’s thirst for freedom.
The tyrant stated in the interview that he would not accept the presidency of Angola being handed over to “anyone.”
The refined ruler—in quotation marks—has forgotten his identity. João Lourenço is, for most Angolans, “just anyone.”
The great sin of the previous president, José Eduardo dos Santos, was not having clarified to the Angolans the large and permanent gap in the marked gap that determines the analytical narrowness of the current tenant of Cidade Alta.
If there are intellectuals in Angola, where are they?
The country needs all of its most illustrious sons to, together, fight the oppressive party that has been in power for 50 uninterrupted years.
The President of the Republic narrows his succession to the party he chooses. He completely ignores any possibility of being succeeded by any other party. This bitterness toward the opposition demonstrates that the president of the MPLA and the Republic knows that, in this regard, there’s a huge chance his decision will backfire.
The way João Lourenço presents the situation shows that the wake for his MPLA may have already left Cidade Alta and headed for the cemetery in the Kremlin of the Republic of the First of May.
In short, from this interview in Istanbul, two conclusions can be drawn:
The first: General Higino Carneiro remains on the agenda of the secret services and the hardliners of the core Lourencistas Aprazados. This means acknowledging that Higino Carneiro is very strong within the MPLA.
The MPLA is deeply divided. If Higino Carneiro chooses to remain permanently outside the Lourencist party, victory could be upon all of us who are fighting against the current MPLA leadership.
We must start talking to the other candidates now so that, together, we can fight against the current leadership.
The fight for MPLA leadership is now centered between us, the “anyone” among us, against the usurping Lourencists. There’s no need to accept the bicephaly that João Lourenço himself fought against in the recent past.
The other inference lies in the recent civil society demonstrations and the large UNITA demonstration.
It was clear that the MPLA suffered a severe reality check.
Only in this way can we understand that, despite the mercenary hired to play the role of journalist and interview the President of the Republic having repeatedly dared to call the popular movements taking place in the country “inorganic demonstrations”, the mercenary journalist was unable to hear from the interviewee the words of support he expected.
The whole country now knows that we will not have local elections due to an exclusive impediment imposed by the president of the MPLA.
João Lourenço is the only serious obstacle preventing local elections from taking place in the country. He has just invented a new plan to prevent local elections from taking place. It’s clear the president is no longer able to reason. There are so many lies that he now feels outclassed and deeply deceived by his own lies.
The point he made doesn’t hold water. It’s like that chant we heard from our mothers, who said, “A hot water bottle doesn’t stand up.”
This argument now presented, which states that the deputies were unable to overcome the expressed will of the president… João Lourenço wants partial elections, and UNITA wants an election throughout the entire national territory, as stated in the law and the Constitution.
If the country can hold general elections throughout the country, why not use the same infrastructure and logistics to hold local elections?
The reality is that it is not important now, before the next fraud — that is, until the next electoral theft — for local elections to be held.
And, to end the “trend,” João Lourenço quickly resorted to the foreign market for buying consciences, importing the corrupt journalist who interviewed him. This way, he could decline or avoid a potential invitation from economist and journalist Rosado de Carvalho to appear on “Economia sem Makas.” Or are you doubting that?
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