"They are fragile, they are showing obvious signs that they are fragile, when someone resorts to low blows it is because they are fragile, this mobilization of young radicals for vandalism is a low blow", said the President of the Republic, when speaking in the province. do Cunene, where he launched the pre-electoral campaign of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
According to João Lourenço, the opposition's use of "a simple installation commission, which is not recognized as a political party, but which acts as such, in disrespect for the State" is also a sign of this weakening of the opposition.
The MPLA president was referring to the political project PRA-JA Servir Angola, by politician Abel Chivukuvuku, which was not recognized by the Constitutional Court, now integrating the United Patriotic Front (FPU) political platform, made up of the National Union for Total Independence parties. of Angola (UNITA) and the Democratic Bloc (BD), created for the alternation of power in the general elections scheduled for the second half of August this year.
"When you go to driving school to take an exam to get your driving license and you fail there, they say: come back in a while, prepare better, come back in a while to take the exam again and we'll give you the license that will enable you to drive a car, means that you cannot drive any car on the public road until you go back there to take a new exam", said João Lourenço.
"But what we are seeing is someone walking on the public road, someone who has been discarded, because he is not recognized as such, he does not have a driving license, he does not have a license, he does not have a property registration title and he is driving on the road. What do you do? The police can't let that car circulate, it's a danger, it can bring misfortune", he joked.
João Lourenço questioned what kind of democracy the opposition defends, when "they act as if it were anarchy". "In August we are also going to send the disembodied people back to driving school, it's the only way to get them to respect the law and the State, but that way they don't go far, they are showing all the signs of so much weakness that I believe the 'KO' will not be difficult", he stressed.
Despite the weaknesses presented by the position, continued João Lourenço, the MPLA cannot be triumphalist "to the point of saying it's done", having advised that this expression be abandoned.
"We have to prepare properly, we have to work, continue to work, both the MPLA militants who are in the executive, and the militants in general, our friends, our sympathizers, the Angolans in general who believe in our governance project , we all have to prepare until the last minute", he said.
João Lourenço said that even "as good students" he considers that the party is sufficiently prepared to face the elections, that is, "the jury, which is the sovereign people".
"But, as we all know, when an exam approaches, there are those students who get very upset, very restless, because they haven't prepared, so they're afraid of the jury, they know they're going to fail, because throughout the year, when they should be studying, they did a gazette, they didn't study, they did ugly things, they practiced acts of banditry and other things and the teacher won't ask anything about banditry, that subject doesn't exist", he said.
The MPLA president took the example to politics and said that the situation "is the same thing, just the same" as what the party's opponents are doing.
"Instead of worrying about designing a good governance program, worrying about disseminating the content of that same program, so that voters know it and defend it, what they are doing is all wrong," he said.
"The only governance program they have is to mobilize some young radicals in the cities, give them half a dozen pennies to go buy a beer, maybe something more dope than that, to commit acts of vandalism, this is the program of governance that, unfortunately, our opposition has", he added.
João Lourenço cited the acts of destruction of MPLA committees in January this year, in Luanda, following a taxi drivers' strike, and more recently in the municipality of Sanza Pombo, in Uíge province.
