"The President's initiative is plausible, since it aims at solving a problem that has generated many sterile debates and that has cost the waste of several precious resources, among them time, however, lamentably, without result, however, it is extemporaneous, which makes it dangerous, since its ultimate goal is to adapt the Constitution of the Republic of Angola to suit their vanities and their political interests", said Tiaka-Tiaka in statements to Lusa.
For the coordinator of the local government movement, "what the country really needs, and with the utmost urgency, is the scheduling of local elections.
"As an example, the Integrated Program of Intervention of Municipalities (PIIM) contemplates the construction of several infrastructures that will serve the municipalities, in those municipalities that, according to the Executive, did not have the material conditions to be elevated to municipalities, which means that, neither the gradualism nor the proclaimed lack of conditions are no longer an obstacle for the institutionalization of the municipalities in Angola", stressed the activist.
For this reason, he added: "On the one hand, this is another dilatory measure aimed at giving sustainability to the Executive's lack of political will to institutionalize the municipalities, thus postponing even more the acclaimed growth and development of Angola and sacrificing even more the already sacrificed people".
For Tiaka-Tiaka, on the other hand, the initiative "is a true testament that the country has a President of the Republic who, without scruples, dishonors the given word in benefit of personal whims and selfishness and that of his group," he said.
The President announced on Tuesday the proposal for a punctual revision of the 2010 Constitution of the Republic of Angola, which addresses issues related to a clarification of the model of institutional relationship between the President of the Republic and the National Assembly in relation to political oversight.
The right to vote abroad, the elimination of gradualism in the Constitution, the main disagreement between the state and the opposition parties over the first local elections, the affirmation of the central bank as an independent entity, and the establishment of a fixed period to hold general elections are also among the object of the revision.
In the proposal, the government, of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), contemplates the revocation of the rule that demands gradualism in the definitive institutionalization of local authorities, an argument that has been used by the ruling party to be against local power throughout the country, proposing only local council elections in some places.
