Africa-Press – Angola. The National Assembly (AN) approved, this Thursday, the draft Resolutions on the Execution Reports of the General State Budget (OGE) for the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2022.
The documents were approved with 122 votes in favor, 79 against and no abstentions, during the 2nd Extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature of the National Assembly.
The Minister of Finance, Vera Daves, said, at the time, that she had taken good note of the contributions and constructive criticisms of the referred documents.
“We will continue to strive to report in the most timely, clear and transparent manner possible”, he said.
Vera Daves announced that a set of actions is underway “aiming to improve the performance of our systems and integrate them, as well as mechanisms that motivate the different budget units to help this reporting exercise, providing all the information that is needed with faster”.
In her declaration of vote, deputy Yolanda Sousa Gaspar, from the MPLA, said that her party voted in favour, “because there is a commitment from the Executive to give priority, fundamentally, to the areas of the social sector, with a direct impact on the lives of the populations “.
He said that, despite the risk of external shocks to the national economy, the Executive executed the expenditure based on greater rigor and economic rationality, aiming to satisfy the greatest number of needs of the population.
Deputy Benedito Daniel, from the mixed parliamentary group (PRS – FNLA), said that they voted in favour, as they understood that they were dealing with information susceptible to occasional changes when approving the General State Account. “As an assessment it is not up to us to make a value judgment, we accept the information”.
On the other hand, UNITA, in the voice of the deputy Anabela Valentim Sapalalo, referred that their party voted against, because they were “prevented from making a “deputation” in almost all the provinces of the country, to investigate and verify locally the degree of physical execution and of the programs in the periods under debate”.
According to the deputy, “the work of analysis in the specialty at the level of the 5th commission was limited to the approval of the Joint Opinion Report, without leaving room for a thorough analysis and evaluation of the OGE Execution Report for the I and II quarters of 2022” .
Election of judges
The National Assembly unanimously approved the Draft Resolution for the election of Counselor Judge Vitória Manuel Izata as vice-president of the Constitutional Court (TC), as well as the filling of the vacancy of a Counselor Judge of the TC, appointed by parliament, which passes be occupied by Vitorino Hossi.
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