Africa-Press – Cape verde. The leader of the Partido Popular (PP) said today, in Mindelo, that with the result of Sunday’s local elections, the Movimento para a Democracia (MpD) is reaping the fruits of its management over the last eight years.
Speaking to Inforpress, Amândio Barbosa Vicente, who is visiting São Vicente, considered that the elections that saw the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) dominate 15 of the 22 municipal councils showed that the Government has been carrying out “catastrophic management of the country”.
“Cape Verdeans have started to respond to the MpD’s governance and also to some of the blunders that their leader has been making. For example, saying that he would take over the Praia Municipal Council at all costs”, said the same source, warning the president of the MpD that Cape Verde is a democratic state under the rule of law where “the vote is sovereign”, and therefore, “a politician should not make a mistake of this nature”.
The leader of the Partido Popular was also at the São Vicente Central Prison, where he took the opportunity to visit former deputy Amadeu Oliveira, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence for the crime of attacking the rule of law and a crime of offending a legal entity.
According to Amândio Barbosa Vicente, Amadeu Oliveira’s arrest is revenge against him due to the various complaints he filed.
Of which, he mentioned, were complaints against justice agents that “were never clarified”.
“They invented this issue of an attack on the State to arrest him. For me, he is a political prisoner in Cape Verde, because he assisted Arlindo Teixeira as an official defender appointed by the State since 2015 and not as a deputy, a position he would assume six years later”, said the same source, reporting that he found the former lawyer “a little physically weak and seemed to be ill”.
The leader of the Partido Popular said that during his visit to the prison, Amadeu Oliveira shared with him that “some of his rights as an inmate were violated”, namely the “illegal and abusive seizure of his laptop”.
“He filed a hierarchical appeal, according to him, to the Minister of Justice, Joana Rosa, but there was no response”, reported Amândio Barbosa Vicente.
“It is normal for an inmate to have a computer as long as it is not connected to an Internet network because he can read or use it as a work tool”.
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