Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, this Thursday urged MPs to refrain from events or actions likely to violate the fundamentals of the rule of law.
In a message addressed to the 7th Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature, the parliamentarian considered it necessary that the representatives of the people deny associating themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, with actions that violate the law.
According to Carolina Cerqueira, it is fundamental that deputies repudiate all actions against social peace.
“I appeal to all deputies, without disregarding their opinion and freedom of expression, rights conferred by democracy, not to associate themselves with actions or demonstrations that violate laws or adopt behaviors that violate social peace”, he expressed.
In the same vein, he recommended that they avoid uttering statements that incite civil disobedience and public disorder, vandalism of public and private property, as well as behavior likely to disturb social cohesion and stability.
He commented that the strength of the deputies’ ideas and convictions, freedom of expression, in terms of democratic and legal principles, must always be framed by a legitimacy that stems from the democratic mandate.
According to Carolina Cerqueira, political action, based on insulting and offending people and institutions, no longer represents democracy, but a “virus that destroys the essence of democracy”.
Therefore, he requested that the deputies live up to the responsibilities inherited from peacemakers, guaranteeing the maintenance of stability and social cohesion.
According to the deputy, the AN, in the constitutional system, constitutes an organ of central sovereignty of democracy and concomitantly of the rule of law.
During the session, three diplomas were discussed and approved that authorize the President of the Republic, as holder of the Executive Power, to legislate on the alteration of the Tax Regime for the Concession of Blocks 30, 44 and 45, as well as the final global vote on the Draft Law of the Labor Procedure Code.
The session was also marked with a debate on citizens’ rights and freedoms versus acts of public disorder.
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