The document, which requested the amendment of the proposed agenda and obtained 110 votes against and 84 votes in favour, referred that journalists have been victims of pressure before, during and after the elections.
"The past election produced an atmosphere of fear, with threats, blackmail and coercion", says the document, which cites the different registered cases "against the physical and moral integrity, as well as assaults on journalists' homes, which to date have not been clarified".
The parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) asks in the document "who cares about the climate of terror and fear in Angola?".
"Who is interested in intimidating and conditioning the class of journalists? Why don't the competent State bodies investigate with impartiality, independence, professional rigor and truth to determine responsibilities? Why does the SIC [Criminal Investigation Service], the PGR [Attorney General's Office] and the State Information Services do not fully fulfill their mission?", reads in the application.
According to the document, the UNITA parliamentary group demands from the President of the Republic a public pronouncement of condemnation, from the National Assembly a protest vote and from the judiciary an attitude of loyalty towards the democratic State and the rule of law, above all, and the defense of life and the safeguard of citizenship rights.
For UNITA's parliamentary group, the National Assembly's protest vote is "timely, urgent and necessary, as it constitutes a clear and unequivocal message to society that the State is united in the defense of social peace and that the National Assembly as a representative body of all Angolans, who expresses the sovereign will of the people and exercises the legislative power of the State, is in solidarity, both with the efforts of the executive power to achieve democracy and justice, and with the general feeling of society that it is not possible to conquer justice or social peace by resorting to gratuitous violence or subverting democracy and the rule of law".
Speaking to the press, the first vice-president of the UNITA parliamentary group, Albertina Navita Ngolo, said that the bench has been insisting on this protest vote since last year, even in the previous plenary session, when it was rejected, because they were representatives of the Angolan people.
"And among the Angolan people there is a class that stands out and that even takes the work of parliament to every house and around the world and that goes through various difficulties, especially threats and coercion because of their freedom of expression to present their work, and it's very serious," she said.
