Africa-Press – Angola. The MPLA parliamentary group called this Thursday, in Luanda, for the need for the National Assembly (AN) to assume its true role as the main platform for reconciliation between each party’s agenda and the public interest.
In his political declaration, at the 3rd Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the 2nd Legislative Session of the V Legislature, the leader of the MPLA parliamentary group, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, noted that it is in the public interest that AN should serve as a beacon for the activities of public entities.
The politician lamented the fact that the opposition transformed parliament “into a stage for irresponsible political activism”, for whom discussions of projects and proposed laws are used as an opportunity for insult, disregard and disrespect.
According to the MPLA deputy, the Plenary meetings have served to radicalize the discourse as a faster means of promotion within the party ranks and the television broadcast of the sessions has been used to exacerbate the disregard and trivialization of institutions.
“We have witnessed, on the part of the retread opposition, a distorted view of reality and devoid of solutions for the country. This party, or is it a coalition? refrains from making a responsible opposition and from going down in history as it participates in the construction of new Angola”, he stressed.
He noted that the opposition prefers to continue presenting shows and providing entertainment, “in a vain attempt to attract more followers on social media, through the dissemination of untruths and misleading speeches, with the aim of instrumentalizing the youth”.
While the MPLA, despite the mistakes it makes, said the deputy, takes over and works tirelessly for the development of Angola, “and the retreaded opposition remains stuck with outdated ideas and without concrete solutions, revealing undisguised traumas from the past and present”.
For him, the AN’s most interventionist action, in the effective exercise of its constitutional and legal powers, involves a realistic and objective adjustment of the main legislation governing this sovereign body, in its various components.
He emphasized that the major current issues in the modern world pose important challenges to Angola and Angolans in education, as the “base” and “decisive factor” for growth and economic and social development, energy transition and technological innovation, diversification of the economy , between others.
Deputy Virgílio de Fontes Pereira recalled that the recent official visit of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, to the United States of America represents an important opportunity for Angola to introduce the debate on the need to reformulate strategic partnerships in the field of geopolitics.
For you, President João Lourenço’s visit to the USA opened doors to increase political cooperation and place it at the level of commercial cooperation in the field of hydrocarbons, as well as the possibility of deepening joint work in the areas of financial markets, military cooperation in the context of regional conflicts, agriculture to ensure food security, infrastructure and technological innovation.
He reaffirmed his party’s commitment to economic, scientific and technical cooperation at international level, based on a pacifist matrix of the Angolan State.
“It is for this reason that we subscribe to the option for peace, as has been defended by our Executive, at the regional and global level”, he highlighted.
The MPLA Parliamentary Group encouraged President Jodo Lourenço “to continue on the path of searching for fruitful paths for the well-being of the Angolan people.
According to the deputy, after the parliamentary defeat of the attempt to dismiss the President of the Republic, democratically elected, “the retread opposition carried out an authentic “out of season carnival”, in a cocktail of arrogance, bad faith and misuse of freedoms, in flagrant violation of discussion and parliamentary decorum”.
UNITA
In the opposite direction, the leader of the UNITA parliamentary group, Liberty Chiaka, highlighted that “Angola is experiencing an environment of degradation of institutions and impoverishment of people, families and companies”.
He accused the Executive of persecuting its political opponents and “of more authoritarianism and less democracy”, of refusing to create local authorities in 164 municipalities and wanting to impose gradualism”.
In UNITA’s view, the Administrative Political Division (DPA) should not serve to deny local authorities to Angolans and intend to increase it to 325 municipalities.
Liberty Chiaka said that her party believes in local power and political-administrative decentralization.
“Without decentralization there is no autonomy, there is no local initiative, there is no creativity and there is no accountability of local representatives”, he expressed.
He also welcomed the holding of the first Congress of Judicial Magistrates, held in the city of Huambo, which addressed the challenges facing justice.
In this regard, he suggested, by amending the Law, separating the role of president of the Supreme Court from that of the Superior Council of the Judiciary.
On the other hand, in her political declaration, the leader of the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA), Florbela Malaquias, welcomed Angola’s departure from the Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries (OPEC).
“We bow to Angola, which managed to say no and leave the oil cartel that dictates world oil policy, OPEC. In the name of Angola’s interests, the advantages and implications of this decision should be optimized”, he stressed.
He argued that, from now on, there must be greater flexibility to adapt oil production to development goals, based on internal factors and better channeling of resources for agriculture, health and infrastructure, customer diversification, production autonomy, pricing and market strategies.
The PRS-FNLA mixed parliamentary group, in the voice of deputy Benjamim da Silva, expressed concern about food security and social conditions of the population and defended the institution of a minimum wage that dignifies citizens, in general.
For him, as remuneration is the main driver of economic life, it is imperative to establish a salary that dignifies citizens.
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