Africa-Press – Angola. UNITA, the largest opposition party, proposes, as a minimum wage, if it wins the August General Elections, 150 thousand evolutionary kwanzas in order to increase the purchasing power of citizens.
The data is contained in the electoral manifesto called the Inclusive and Participatory Government of Galo Negro, recently presented to voters and which Jornal de Angola had access to.
“Guarantee a minimum wage for the Civil Service in the order of 150 thousand evolutionary Kwanzas and increase purchasing power”, says the UNITA electoral manifest called Inclusive and Participatory Government (GIP). However, the minimum wage is set at 65 thousand Kwanzas.
On the first page, under the title “Fighting Poverty and Hunger”, the program aims to guarantee stability in the Civil Service, maintaining and valuing civil servants, as well as improving working conditions, decent wages and quality of life. UNITA, as the winner of the August 24 elections, should create a business environment favorable to the attraction of investments, entrepreneurship and mass employment. The Galo Negro project plans to rehabilitate and empower small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, as well as create professional training centers in communes, districts and sectors to provide youth with skills and abilities required in the job market.
According to UNITA’s Government programme, the creation of job incubators with a view to accompanying the training and qualification of young people to facilitate their direction and insertion in the labor market is a priority. The fight against poverty and hunger, according to UNITA, aims at the adoption of a monetary policy that allows the sustainable stability of the national currency with measures that include the increase of domestic production and the reduction of imports.
The party founded by Jonas Savimbi in 1966, in Muangai, in the province of Moxico, also aims, if it comes to power, to review Presidential Decree number 161/18, which prohibits imports of second-hand vehicles and other products. In terms of field production, according to the “Inclusive and Participatory Government” project, Galo Negro proposes to build and rehabilitate roads, and the roads that connect production centers to distribution centers and markets. In this regard, UNITA admits taking a census of arable land and distributing it to farmers for proper exploitation. “The fight against poverty and hunger tends to subsidize the importation of means of production, fertilizers and seeds, to reach farmers at affordable prices.”
The training of agricultural and livestock technical agents in communities to encourage and promote subsistence, sustainable and profitable family farming is part of UNITA’s objectives for the five-year period 2022 to 2027.
According to the UNITA Government’s electoral manifesto, the party led by Adalberto Costa Júnior intends to create small manufacturing units close to the main production centers. “To boost the production of the basic food basket in a consistent way and guarantee the three minimum meals a day”, says the document, to add that children must also be guaranteed school meals and the creation of an emergency assistance plan. Joaquim Cabanje João Constantino | care
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