Dozens of FAA generals and admirals, as well as National Police officers, were dismissed, replaced and appointed to new positions, according to eight presidential decrees published in the Diário da República and six FAA Commander-in-Chief Orders, by inheritance of João Lourenço.
Among these, some transition to a situation of temporary inactivity, others are replaced, promoted or undergo retirement by age limit.
In the case of Judge Joel Leonardo, who is at war with his peers from the Association of Judges of Angola (AJA), the post in the reform is changed, from senior officer to brigadier.
The President of the Supreme Court, and due to his duties, of the Superior Council for the Judiciary (CSMJ) is accused of appointing his daughter, a jurist, to train magistrates in Portugal.
The decision led the AIA to take legal action to "challenge" the decision of the president of the Superior Council for the Judiciary who appointed staff to be trained in Portugal, "without the opinion of the plenary."
The nominal list of magistrates was made by the president of the Supreme Court (TS) and, according to AJA, the initiative "was not appreciated" by the plenary of the CSMJ.
"Our expectation is that this act performed will be suspended so that things can be done legally, that is, suspend the effectiveness of the act performed by the venerated judge president", at the end of December, the president of AJA, Adalberto told Lusa Gonçalves.
Speaking to Lusa, the official said that AJA's biggest concern is the fact that the decision, on issues related to the training of magistrates, "falls within the competence of the plenary of the CSMJ and not the presiding judge" of the magistracy.
In a letter recently made public, the presiding advising judge of the CSMJ, Joel Leonardo, sent to the Attorney General of the Republic of Angola a nominal list of six judges for training in Portugal, scheduled to start on January 8, 2021.
Angolan judges appointed for this training are Daniel Modesto Geraldes, Antónia Kilombo José Damião, Joaquim Fernando Salombongo, Pedro Nazaré Pascoal, Amélia Jumbila Isaú Leonardo Machado and Nazaré Sílvio Inácio António.
"This question, in particular, about the decision of who should be the people who should do the training, should be taken in a meeting of the plenary CSMJ and as far as we know, at least in the document in which it was published, there is no reference to the a resolution from the plenary of the CSMJ ", stressed the president of AJA.
"Contrary" to what has been shown on social networks, noted Adalberto Gonçalves, "we have no issue against the fact that close people, relatives of the venerated presiding judge, are included in the list."
"Our perspective of approach is different, that is, we look at the competencies of the president of the CSMJ and of the different bodies that make up the judiciary", he noted.
Adalberto Gonçalves said at the time that the news of "considerable negative impact" on the judiciary, recorded in 2020, that "tarnishes" this power of sovereignty, which "because it is the guarantor of the democratic and rule of law, is the last moral reserve of society".
