Africa-Press – Angola. The issue of the fleet of protocol and support vehicles provided and assisted by the State and security guards dominated, this Wednesday, the discussion of the Draft Law on the Statute of Former Presidents of the Republic.
Within the framework of this Bill, under consideration in the specialty in the AN, some legislators defend the establishment of limits on the fleet of protocol and support vehicles guaranteed by the competent State bodies, while others understand that this assumption should be avoided in the law.
Unlike Alcino Kuvalela, from UNITA, deputy Paulo de Carvalho, from the MPLA, understands that limits should not be quantified on the issue of protocol and support vehicles for security reasons, for whom the fact that a former President or Vice-President not being in office does not mean that safety standards do not apply to them.
In this respect, the Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida, clarified that the question of the number of vehicles is also underlying the security device of the figure of the former President of the Republic.
He explained that the number of vehicles will have to consider the security device that assembles the caravan of protocol vehicles of the former President of the Republic, noting that these are, as a rule, specialist matters.
“When a regulatory question has to be taken in this domain, as a general rule, it is security structures that intervene and define a standard of how this should work”, he stressed.
According to the Minister of State, the intention of, in a legislative space, getting to the detail of this type of questions “not only seems to us to be based on the assumption that there is a capacity for legislative forecasting, but also places us before a practical and concrete risk that the solution is not the most adequate”.
“Therefore, it seems to us that this is a matter that is clearly the responsibility of the law enforcement plan and not so much an express legislative option”, he pointed out.
Deputy Peregrino Wuambo, from UNITA, suggested, throughout the debate, that the officers in charge (security elements) should be indicated by the articles Presidents or Vice-Presidents and, on the other hand, the Minister of State defended that the solution should not sizzle.
He argued that the former President and Vice-President do not exercise a public function “and since they are not invested with a public function, they do not have the competences to, for example, designate a military officer to be their commanding officer, it is the military bodies that designate.
But this designation, said the Minister of State, can be made after consultation or opinion from the former President to ensure that he is integrated into the process.
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