Africa-Press – Angola. Florbela Malaquias turned a blind eye to the TC ruling by keeping a list of PHA representatives at the CNE during the approval process. The President of the National Assembly was alerted by a UNITA deputy, but she claimed to be unaware of the document.
The president of the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA), Florbela Malaquias, continues to ‘trample’ on the statutes of that political force, despite ruling no. 1001-2025, case no. 1243 – c/2024, of the Constitutional Court (TC) which annuls all her acts.
Dated June 17, 2025, and filed by Ivo Miguel Gonçalves Ginguma and others, the TC ruling annuls all acts by Florbela Malaquias to restructure the party after the 2022 General Elections.
Without observing the statutes, Bela Malaquias, as she is also known, removed the vice-presidents under the pretext of appointing them as commissioners of the National Electoral Commission (CNE), having replaced them with others; created the figure of first president, appointed provincial presidents, among other abuses considered serious.
“Provincial presidents must be proposed by the national coordinating vice president and approved by the National Political Commission. This did not happen,” Nsimba Luawa, vice president for the PHA’s national jurisdictional council, told NJ.
In a stance that constitutes ‘disauthorization’ of the TC ruling, Florbela Malaquias not only turned a blind eye by maintaining the list of PHA representatives in the CNE, during the act of approval in the National Assembly in the session of June 19 of this year, but on the 20th of this month she endorsed circular no. 004/2025, in which she instructs “all presidents of the provincial and municipal political commissions of the PHA not to accept verbal or written information, visits or work commissions from other members of the party, without prior authorization and without the work plan having the signature of the president of the PHA”.
Florbela Malaquias turned a blind eye to the TC ruling by keeping a list of PHA representatives at the CNE during the approval process. The President of the National Assembly was alerted by a UNITA deputy, but she claimed to be unaware of the document.
The circular also states that the president who finds himself in that condition should not assume such responsibility, or carry out any act, without first having confirmation or communication from the party president.
On June 23, 2025, Florbela Malaquias met, via WhatsaApp, with the presidents of the national and provincial committees, to reinforce the guidance under the single point of order of business: “guidelines on the political action of the party at provincial level”.
To NJ, Nsimba Luawa, vice-president of the PHA’s national jurisdictional council, who was once expelled but has resumed party life due to the TC ruling, warns the party president that the party’s decisions are mandatory.
“The party president is a lawyer and knows that court decisions are mandatory,” he recalls.
Nsimba Luawa reveals that, on June 23, they sent a letter to the party president asking her to convene the national political committee, whose aim is to redefine the internal life of the organization.
“If after a second letter the president does not convene the national political committee, we will, within 15 days, in light of the statutes, convene the national political committee,” he announced.
Note that the NJ tried unsuccessfully to hear the version of the PHA president.
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