The signing of the Parliamentary Cooperation Program for the 2025/2026 biennium took place in Luanda, as part of the strengthening of friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.
Pedro Agostinho de Neri, secretary-general of the National Assembly, and his Cape Verdean counterpart, Angelino Coelho, were the signatories of the document.
"The instrument, signed in the presence of the presidents of the parliaments of the two Portuguese-speaking countries, Carolina Cerqueira and Austelino Correia, aims to implement the Cooperation Protocol signed between the parties on May 6, 2014 and renewed on June 26, 2023", explains the parliament, in a statement to which VerAngola had access.
On the occasion, Pedro Agostinho de Neri said that "the document includes several actions that contribute to strengthening the skills and abilities of parliamentary employees, in the fields of legal advice, support for deputies, information technologies, multimedia, security, among others.
He also recalled that the previous parliamentary cooperation programme was signed approximately 10 years ago (2014/2015), "which was intended to strengthen the institutional capacity of the administrative services of Angola and Cape Verde, through the training and qualification of their human resources, just like the current one, but with more actions included, focusing on the modernisation of parliaments, in order to make them more digital, with the major challenge being the dematerialisation of their administrative processes and procedures".
In turn, Angelino Coelho, Secretary-General of the National Assembly of Cape Verde, expressed his satisfaction with the execution of the "implementation of the Cooperation Program signed in his country, during the visit of President Carolina Cerqueira in 2023, highlighting the partnership between the two parliaments and the common history for self-determination and consolidation of democracy".
"The Cape Verdean manager, however, made a commitment to bring the two institutions closer together in terms of procedures and technical-administrative capabilities. In addition to strengthening the role of parliamentary administrations in the context of the CPLP", the note reads.
A Cape Verdean parliamentary delegation, headed by Austelino Correia, president of the National Assembly of Cape Verde, is carrying out a four-day visit to Angola. His agenda includes a trip to the province of Cabinda, where he will "visit the Local Support Office for the Provincial Electoral Circle and the Deep Water Port of Caio, as well as hold a meeting with the Cape Verdean community residing in that district of Angolan territory".
