Marcolino Moco protested on his Facebook account "against the return (or never left?) of the policy of free disqualification of 'other' political figures and/or organizations, in the lowest possible way.
For the former Secretary General of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), hearing or implying that the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) is not Angolan is a cause for concern.
"Whatever it is, even insinuating that Adalberto Costa Júnior is not Angolan, hearing him from various mouths, and now sensing him in a statement from the MPLA's BP [Political Bureau], is something that makes me very concerned," he said.
The politician stresses that his position is the same as he always had before insinuations that former President José Eduardo dos Santos was not Angolan.
"Angola, as a modern political-administrative and sociological phenomenon is a very recent reality. Therefore, all of us, most of today's Angolan elite, were born Portuguese. Angolans are black, white and mestizo. Most were born in Angola, but not everyone could have been born here," recalled Marcolino Moco.
According to the former prime minister, Adalberto Costa Júnior "by chance was born in Angola, in the current province of Huambo.
"The (formal) Portuguese nationality, I, by chance, do not have today. But how many have it, for various reasons, in all social quadrants of Angola? We already have problems of 'marimbondos' who elect 'marimbondos'. We don't have 'Portuguese' electing 'marimbondos' now," he stressed.
When Marcolino Moco finished his reflection, he disagreed that it was Portugal and the Portuguese who were to blame for Angola's current problems, because "this is an axiom.
This week, 'posts' with the image of Adalberto Costa Júnior and phrases that attribute Portuguese nationality to him began to be shared on social networks, namely: "SIC supports the citizen Adalberto Tuga," "Is this Rooster Portuguese after all? ", "The President of UNITA is Salazar's countryman", "Is it Adalberto Tuga or Adalberto Júnior?", "Now UNITA is a Portuguese party!", "Adalberto Tuga voted in the elections in Portugal", "Adalberto Tuga has a European passport" and "Adalberto Tuga will annex Angola to Portugal".
The MPLA's BP, in its statement about the latest events in Cafunfo, Lunda Norte province, when questioning which country Angolans want for the future, answers that it is "an Angola where voters are not surprised by unscrupulous political leaders, who after all are foreign citizens and therefore execute a political agenda contrary to the interests of Angola and Angolans.
In 2019, Adalberto Costa Júnior, as a candidate for UNITA leadership at the 13th ordinary congress, abdicated Portuguese nationality because the Angolan Constitution does not allow dual nationality for candidates for the President of the Republic.
