The FNLA, PRS, APN parties and the CASA-CE coalition need an additional 600 million kwanzas (1.3 million euros) each to settle debts with list delegates, who worked in the general elections, and asked the Angolan President for support .
The president of the Social Renovation Party (PRS), Benedito Daniel, told Lusa this Wednesday that the concern about the payment of the list delegates, who worked in the elections of August 24, is generalized, for which the parties made a joint request with the Angolan. President.
“It was a joint complaint with all the parties that feel that need, which is more or less the same, we need about 600 million kwanzas each for this payment,” said the PRS leader.
For the August 24 elections, each party received 1,112 million (2.6 million euros), almost triple what was paid in 2017.
For the president of the social reformers, the subsidies to the list delegates “should be granted by the National Electoral Commission, but unfortunately that amount was not available”, contrary to what happened in 2017.
In that sense, the total subsidy “has not been enough to pay the list delegates,” he assumed.
In the case of the PRS, “we have made some efforts within the possibilities we have to try to respond to this condition of dehydration, despite the fact that we have already made a complaint to the head of state to see if this situation can really be solved. ”. viewed”.
Delegates on the list of various political forces, which competed in the fifth Angolan general elections, demand the payment of their subsidies and even these have already held demonstrations at the headquarters of the respective parties.
The national headquarters of the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), in Luanda, was vandalized by some delegates demanding the payment of their subsidies and a similar situation was recorded at the premises of the National Front for Liberation of Angola (FNLA).), in Luanda and in the interior of the country.
A Lusa, the president of the FNLA, Nimi a Simbi, confirmed that his party still lacks the respective delegates on the list and is awaiting a response to the joint request made to the Angolan President, João Lourenço.
According to the leader of the “brothers”, his party needs about 600 million kwanzas to pay off the debt. “There is no other way, if he (President of the Republic) makes the money available, we pay, because we need to attend to the list of delegates from all over the country, because our structures inside the country and here in Luanda are breaking down. “, lament.
Nimi a Simbi recalled that most of the delegates on his party’s list held demonstrations in the interior of the country, and in Uíge their structures were also vandalized and, in Namibe, their representative was the victim of an attack.
“Almost all the provinces are reacting negatively, the situation is very worrying, the case is no less, the State really has to put its hand in because we do not have that money to pay them, they are the costs of democracy and they really have to pay ”, fired the president of the FNLA.
And CASA-CE, which saw its headquarters in Luanda destroyed, also lacks the delegates on the list and awaits a response to the joint letter sent last week by the Angolan President.
A source from the coalition’s presidential college told Lusa that the party’s strength “is in reflection, awaiting the position of the Constitutional Court” and, at the same time, João Lourenço’s response on the financing of the list delegates.
Source: Observadora
