The document was approved with 27 votes in favor, one abstention and zero against. UNITA abandoned the vote because it did not agree with the distribution of seats, citing unilateralist practices.
The National Assembly approved this Thursday, in particular, without the votes of UNITA, the largest Angolan opposition party, the Draft Resolution approving the designation of the number of representatives of political parties with parliamentary seats in the National Electoral Commission.
The document was approved with 27 votes in favor, one abstention and zero againstat the joint meeting of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs and State Administration and Local Power commissions of the National Assembly, which was marked by the abandonment of the vote by the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA), for I do not agree with the distribution.
The sole purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the Joint Opinion Report and the Draft Resolution that, in accordance with the Law of Organization and Functioning of the CNE and the Organic Law of General Elections, establishes the new composition of the CNE, as well as as a result of the results of the general elections of August 24, 2022.
With the approval of the project, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the majority party, has nine representatives, UNITA, with fourthe Social Renewal Party (PRS), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the Angolan Humanist Party (PHA), with one representative each.
The UNITA parliamentary group, in a press release, He pointed out several reasons for abandoning the act of voting.including that the preparatory process of the meeting violated the Regulations of the National Assembly, since, apart from the president of the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, no other member of the first and fourth committees participated in the preliminary discussion, which shows “ unilateralist practices.”
“Based on the 2022 results, UNITA had an increase of 39 deputies, which represents an increase of more seats in the CNE. However, giving priority to the principle of reasonableness, initially proposed eight seats for the MPLA, instead of nine, five seats for UNITA, instead of seven, in honor of the principle of respect for minoritiesleaving three mandates to be distributed, at a rate of one for each of the other political forces with parliamentary seats (PRS, FNLA and PHA),” he states.
According to the UNITA parliamentary group, the party asked the panel for clarifications to evaluate the criteria of the MPLA proposal, in collaboration with the PRS, the FNLA and the PHA, also suggesting ““the suspension of voting to establish dialogue between all political forces, with parliamentary seats and resolve misunderstandings”.
“Given the lack of clarification and with the panel irreducible in its intention to submit the matter to a vote in any way, violating the law and the most basic precepts of healthy coexistence in democracy, which suggest dialogue in search of consensus, the The deputies of the UNITA parliamentary group decided not to participate in the vote under these conditions.”stands out in the document.
Source: Observadora
