Africa-Press – Angola. The UNITA Parliamentary Group will challenge the constitutionality of the Resolution that approves the election of the vice-presidents of the National Assembly, announced this Monday, in Luanda, at a press conference, Liberty Chiyaka.
The leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Galo Negro party, Liberty Chiyaka, argued that it is unconstitutional, because it was not approved and agreed by Organs internal bodies of the National Assembly.
According to the deputy, UNITA considers that the change caused by what it considers to be “an interference by another power” in the exercise of the National Assembly’s organizational competence constitutes a “clear violation of the principle of separation of powers and interdependence of functions”, which governs the Republic of Angola.
“According to modern parliamentary doctrine, when a political party has a simple majority, it proposes the candidate for president of Parliament and the second most voted party proposes the candidate for first vice president. When a party has an absolute majority, it proposes the candidates for president and first vice president. -president. The second most voted party proposes the second vice-president of the Parliament”, he explained.
Liberty Chiyaka also said that the election of the president and vice-presidents are acts of sovereignty of the National Assembly to be carried out within the framework of organizational competence and any participation or interference by another sovereign body in that process constitutes a violation of the principle of separation of powers, either in terms of the theory of the essential core, or in terms of the custom adopted in Angola since 1992.
“It also constitutes a violation of the principle of supremacy of the Constitution, violation of the principle of legality, violation of the principle on the organs of sovereignty and the reserve of the Constitution, enshrined in articles 6, 105 and 117, all of the Constitution of the Republic of Angola” , he added.
He also maintained that the acts of election of the president and vice-presidents of the National Assembly must be approved by Resolution of the National Assembly, and not by law.
Liberty Chiyaka considered that the representative assembly of all Angolans expresses the idea of plural representation of existing political currents and conveyed by these same citizens.
“Parliamentary Groups are, according to the doctrine, autonomous subjects of parliamentary activity, independent of the deputies that constitute them. They are not a simple form of organization of deputies, without autonomous parliamentary powers. They are true parliamentary entities, with their own parliamentary powers, which , even when parallel to those of deputies, they are exercised cumulatively and independently”, he concluded.
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