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, iENDIAMA celebrated today a collective agreement with the company’s workers’ union commission to define rules for the relationship between the parties and improve the living conditions of the workforce.
The chairman of the Board of Directors of Endiama, Ganga Júnior, and the workers’ union, the second secretary, Rodrigo Manuel, signed the collective agreement on behalf of the employer.
At the time, the CEO of the company mentioned that they periodically received a list of claims in which workers expressed greater attention from the employer, ways to obtain better working conditions and wages.
To reach the agreement, said the manager, they worked for a certain period of time, redefining mechanisms that contemplate workers’ remuneration, taking into account inflation and the price index.
“We have to change or readjust workers’ wages, underlined Ganga Júnior, after the collective bargaining agreement.
He specified that the agreement provides for the improvement of working conditions and wages, as well as the stability of workers, even after the reform.
For the implementation of the agreement, he explained that first they will deal with people’s health, to allow workers in advanced age to have quality of life, that is, medical and medication assistance, including their descendants.
A second point, advanced the PCA of the Angolan diamond company ENDIAMA, is the constitution of a private pension fund, in the sense that the workers have an additional income, after an active working life, which will be borne by six percent by the company, and the other part by the workforce.
According to the PCA, the points listed in the agreement come into force immediately.” The actions are all in progress, such as, for example, the medical and medication issue, which already exists and will continue to exist, and the pension fund, which began to take effect in January of the current year”.
For his part, the second secretary of the workers’ union, Rodrigo Manuel, said that the list of claims contained 18 points, with only one point remaining, which is already being dealt with.
“Almost all the points were taken care of, with the exception of one that is being treated. In that case, we just have to be happy and wait for the point related to salary asymmetries to come into effect”, stated the trade unionist.
The process for implementing the aforementioned agreement, between ENDIAMA and the workers, took four years to be put into effect, the result of exhaustive meetings between the parties.
ENDIAMA EP, founded on January 15, 1981, is a national company dedicated to prospecting, exploring and marketing diamonds.
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