2023-04-27 15:25:18
The parliamentary group of UNITA, the largest opposition party that the MPLA still allows in Angola, today challenged the MPLA, in power since 1975, to schedule the discussion of the municipal package for the implementation of local authorities in the next 30 days. All that was left was to challenge Santa Claus to also make a statement on the subject…
A The proposal was expressed today by the leader of UNITA’s parliamentary group, Liberty Chiaka, at a press conference to present the party’s position regarding the public invitation for dialogue made by the parliamentary group of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
It is important, first of all, to ask whether the MPLA knows what “dialogue” means? Just in case, with the purest pedagogy, Folha 8 explains that “dialogue” means “conversation between two people; conversation between several people; discussion or negotiation between two or more parties, usually with a view to reaching an agreement”. Furthermore, what the MPLA wants is the “monologue”, that is, “the act of talking to oneself; discourse that leaves no opportunity for other interlocutors to intervene”.
According to Liberty Chiaka, a week ago the leader of the MPLA bench invited Angolans to reflect on the need to institutionalize inclusive dialogue mechanisms at the various levels and segments of national life, not only in relation to the functioning of institutions, but also, above all , in the informal circuits for capturing the popular will and popular perception of the various social, economic, political and cultural phenomena that form the national environment of Angolans.
Liberty Chiaka stressed that the invitation contains aspects that they consider to be “very positive” and others that “enclose some misunderstandings that require a public position by the UNITA parliamentary group”.
“Finally, the MPLA decided to associate itself with the genuine desire of the majority of Angolans”, said the parliamentary leader, considering that “the escape from dialogue had an impact on the setback of the democratic rule of law”, namely the closure of the bilateral mechanism for political consultation between the Government and UNITA following the 2008 elections.
“Who in the National Assembly has been avoiding the debate of urgent, necessary, relevant and public interest issues?”, asked the leader of the UNITA parliamentary group, citing cases of rejection of requests such as parliamentary commissions of inquiry into public debt, the sovereign wealth fund , the management of the state oil company Sonangol or the management of the former BESA (Banco Espírito Santo de Angola) and BPC (Banco de Poupança e Crédito).
The UNITA politician also questioned who abandoned the dialogue in the National Assembly on the proposal for a Law on the Institutionalization of Local Authorities.
“Those who defend inclusive, open, honest dialogue must be aware of these manifestations of lack of dialogue, those who defend dialogue do justice, do not favor the judiciary, those who defend dialogue carry out a serious and comprehensive fight once morest corruption and not selective”, he stressed.
According to Liberty Chiaka, UNITA has always defended dialogue and expressed availability, “unlike the MPLA, which has always evaded and shielded itself in the qualified majority and in this case in the absolute majority”.
Liberty Chiaka said that the UNITA parliamentary group identified in the MPLA parliamentary group’s invitation three positive elements for building the future, namely the implicit recognition that the course of deepening democracy in the country had been abandoned and needs to be resumed.
“And the ruling party is available now to, little by little, through inclusive dialogue, resume the course of deepening democracy”, he stressed.
For UNITA’s parliamentary group, there is no need to institutionalize more or new mechanisms for social consultation dialogue to capture the popular will and popular perception on the various social, economic, political and cultural phenomena, “it is necessary to use the mechanisms existing”.
“Enough of talk regarding municipalities, we need to act, to make it happen in fact”, said the deputy.
The holding of the first municipal elections had been scheduled for 2020, but they were postponed without a new date, depending on the finalization of the approval of the municipal legislative package. In other words, depending on the will of the MPLA and, above all, on the certainty that it will win, even if it is losing but winning, as João Lourenço did in the last legislative elections, using the CNE – National Electoral Commission and the Constitutional Court in the politics, and the Armed Forces in the streets on the grounds that what matters is the reason of force and not the force of reason.
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