Angolan President appoints Abel Chivukuvuku member of the Council of the Republic

The Angolan President, João Lourenço, appointed the leader of the recently legalized PRA-JA Servir Angola party, Abel Chivukuvuku, as advisor to the Republic, due to a vacancy, according to a note published on the Facebook page of the Angolan presidency.

This collegiate advisory body of the Head of State is made up of the Vice President of the Republic, the President of the National Assembly, the Attorney General of the Republic, the leaders of the political parties with parliamentary seats, the vice president of the MPLA and civil society. entities of society, such as the journalist Ismael Mateus, recently deceased.

Chivukuvuku, former member of UNITA (the largest Angolan opposition party) and president of the CASA-CE coalition, from which he was dismissed in 2019, saw the Constitutional Court finally give the green light to his PRA-JA party Serve Angola last week pass. after several years of waiting.

Chivukuvuku is also part of the United Patriotic Front (FPU), a platform created in the 2022 general elections, led by UNITA. and coordinated by Adalberto Costa Júnior, assisted by Abel Chivukuvuku and the president of the Democratic Bloc, Filomeno Vieira Lopes.

At the opening of the parliamentary year, on Wednesday, the president of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Adalberto Costa Júnior, considered that the legalization of the PRA-JA Servir Angola had political motivations, supposedly to destabilize the United Patriotic Front (FPU). ), ensuring that the opposition platform “is stable.”

The Constitutional Court of Angola announced last week the legalization of PRA-JA Servir Angola, a decision that put an end to a process that had been dragging on since 2019, the year the project was presented, which ended up being rejected in 2020 by the court. , forcing us to wait four years for another legalization attempt.

Angolan Constitutional Court legalizes Abel Chivukuvuku’s party