Abílio Kamalata Numa was speaking at a conference with militants from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) on the situation of former combatants and veterans of the country and the 20 years of peace, which Angola celebrated on the 4th of this month.
"Our generation of former combatants and veterans of the homeland has the ultimate mission of providing the youth and the entire Angolan people with efficient and effective instruments to lead the democratic alternation in 2022, with Adalberto da Costa Júnior and the lesson that political power in Angola is exercised by whoever obtains legitimacy, through an electoral process that is freely and democratically exercised under the terms of the Constitution and the law", said the politician.
According to Abílio Kamalata Numa, the generation of former combatants and veterans of the homeland "did not fight for a political party to be a mere vehicle to ensure a comfortable life for a privileged minority, to the detriment of the whole people".
"We fight for fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic", he stressed.
Regarding the ruling by the Constitutional Court that rejected a request for annulment by a group of party militants from the XIII ordinary UNITA congress, Abílio Kamalata Numa said that the party was always consistent with itself.
"UNITA, since 2002, which began the path of an unarmed political party, UNITA has always respected the institutions and the law, so the congresses that UNITA has held are congresses that have been held in accordance with the law of political parties in force in Angola", he stressed.
Abílio Kamalata Numa stressed that Angolans are not only subject to national legislation, but also to the international and regional context.
"Within SADC [Southern African Development Community] we have very advanced agreements for the healthy development of democracy in the countries of this region and there are even indicative laws, which all countries in that region should follow in holding democratic elections in their countries, that's why we are at ease and we hope that our institutions give priority to what is enshrined in our laws", he said.
