The constitutionalist and academic, who was general secretary of the MPLA (in power since 1975), was present this Friday at a meeting of the political project PRA-JA Servir Angola, led by Abel Chivukuvuku, where partners from the United Patriotic Front also attended (FPU), Adalberto Costa Júnior, president of UNITA, and Filomeno Vieira Lopes, president of the Democratic Bloc.
Marcolino Moco was critical of the 2010 Constitution, in which powers were given "to a single person, who does not care about electoral results to be reappointed, because he is safe" and "protected" by the National Assembly, among other aspects "scandalous" which he considered worrying.
"There are people who have not yet realized the danger of this Constitution, in which a minority party can nominate a President with all the powers", he warned.
Marcolino Moco, currently retired from active politics but who declared his support for UNITA (opposition) in the last elections, stressed that, in legal terms, there is no possibility of João Lourenço having a third term, despite the fact that he "is showing signs" of wanting a third term, although he does not expressly say so.
"This is worrying, he is not the only one who does this in Africa", he criticized, pointing out other African heads of state, "curiously and sadly, even young people, such as Guinea Bissau and Senegal", who follow the same path.
"I thought that leaders younger than me, at that time, could educate themselves better, but unfortunately we have this situation," he lamented.
Therefore, he added, when João Lourenço "does not clarify" this problem, "the concern remains".
Asked about the country's new Administrative Political Division (DPA), which should be voted on in general on February 28th, he considered it a diversionary maneuver, "a way of diverting society from the debate on the institution of local authority".
"This is clear to anyone who thinks at all and it's a shame", he highlighted, remembering that João Lourenço, at the beginning of his term, gave priority to the issue, which was postponed by his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos.
If approved, Angola will have 325 municipalities and 20 provinces, instead of the current 18. The two new provinces that could be created will result from the division of the province of Moxico, becoming Moxico and Kassai Zambeze, and the province of Cuando Cubango, divided into two: Cuando and Cubango.
