Africa-Press – Angola. Governing with proximity and permanent interaction with the citizen is the way to achieve city life within their own community, considered Tuesday, in Lubango, the coordinator of the group of UNITA deputies working in the province of Huíla, Paulo Faria.
The politician, speaking at the end of a courtesy meeting with the Archbishop of Lubango, Dom Gabriel Mbilingi, lasting more than two hours, stated that political power has as its rationale the realization and pursuit of the common good and only if carried out with a more decentralized model, close to citizens and their communities.
He stated that the idea is to present an interactive modality and deputation for the group is to be close, to listen to the citizen and have him as the centerpiece, “because only then will he feel the responsibility of being a deputy”.
He explained that with the archbishop the objective was to address the “need” for the institutionalization of local authorities, to gather the archbishop’s perspective, a fundamental opinion to consolidate the proposals that are being made by political forces.
In turn, the Archbishop of Lubango, Dom Gabriel Mbilingi highlighted that local authorities “allow proximity” between those who govern and those who are governed, because the mayor is elected by the people in relation to the government proposals he presents.
In the aforementioned process, he continued, the voting citizen has the greatest power to monitor the actions of his leader and he is left to carry out everything based on consultation, and this time listening to those who did not elect him, so work must be done to ensure that happen.
The group of deputies visiting the province of Huíla since Tuesday and on the first day of the visit, in addition to the courtesy meeting with the archbishop of Lubango, they visited the Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Huíla and the Evangelical Church in Angola (IEA).
This morning a courtesy meeting was held with the governor of Huíla, Nuno Mahapi, which served to learn about the real situation of Huíla, its challenges and opportunities, in which in terms of challenges there are two “fundamental” areas: education and health that require greater investment.
The rural exodus was also listed as another challenge, as the province is faced with more and more people leaving the interior, the search for opportunities in the city and the offers are scarce, which in the group’s opinion focuses on the pressure to the movement towards the implementation of local authorities, in order to generate sustainable integrated development.
The deputies’ agenda also includes visits to the Union of Evangelical Churches of Angola (UIEA), the Mutundo informal market, meetings with activists, meetings with trade union centrals and civil society. Parliamentarians also visit the municipalities of Gambos and Matala.
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