The call to participate was made this Thursday by the president of the largest opposition party, Adalberto Costa Júnior. The UNITA leader stated that the government still does not have a solution to hunger.
The Angolan population is being mobilized by UNITA to join a demonstration, this Saturday in Luanda, against the social situation in the country. The largest opposition party justified the act with the need to demand urgent measures from the government to combat hunger and poverty that affect many families in Angola.
“For a different and truly democratic Angola, I ask you, Angolan citizen, to participate [na manifestação]. It is participatory democracy that led developed countries to develop. I am writing to you, young man, to participate, because it is a function of achieving your rights,” the party leader appealed.
Adalberto Costa Júnior made this announcement through a live broadcast on the Facebook page of a television linked to his party. During the intervention, he said that, before deciding on the demonstration, UNITA addressed the institutions, where it asked for “urgent measures to combat hunger and poverty.”
However, despite the efforts, Costa Júnior pointed out that the country ended up witnessing the presentation of a State Budget that does not reflect the concerns of the population. Therefore, he added, Angolans need an inclusive country in which the government thinks of the people “as its central space.”
“Unfortunately we have just seen the presentation of the General State Budgets, in which there are no answers to the main social problems; to the problem of unemployment […]. “We still do not see solutions to combat hunger and exclusion, we continue to see the country divided by scissors for the convenience of the regime,” he described.
Among the justifications for the demonstration, the president of UNITA presented the fact that Young people continue to be arrested for exercising their right to freedom of expression. in addition to the limitations imposed on the media in terms of freedom of the press.
“We have young people detained because they criticized the President of the Republic. In this country it is prohibited to criticize the President of the Republic, when in reality criticism is a right. We cannot live in a society without freedoms, in a society without plurality, in a society where censorship is extreme in social communication,” he concluded.
The demonstration against hunger in Angola should begin at 9 am this Saturday, with a rally in front of the Santa Ana cemetery, in Luanda. But the protesters’ march will only take place four hours later.
Source: Observadora
