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Hélder Pitta Gróz is running for Attorney General of the Republic

The Attorney General of the Republic of Angola, Hélder Pitta Gróz, whose mandate ended in December last year and who had announced that he would not run for re-election, has changed his mind and is one of the candidates for the position that will be voted on Monday.

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The name of Pitta Gróz is among the ten names admitted to fill the positions of Attorney General of the Republic and Deputy Attorney presented, on 21 April, at the meeting of the Electoral Commission of the Superior Council for the Magistracy of the Public Ministry (CSMMP), according to a report that the Lusa agency had access to.

The decision was received with “complete surprise” by judicial sources contacted by Lusa and who were present at the meeting that served to approve the voting methodology and the candidacies.

Pitta Gróz, 67 years old, had communicated on December 23 that he would not run for the renewal of his mandate, but he has now told his peers that he changed the decision he took at the time, claiming "that there was the orchestration of a campaign” that aimed denigrate him, "violating all ethical principles that should guide personal ambition".

In a message addressed to members of the CSMMP, which Lusa had access to, the attorney general stated that he thought it was better at the time to step aside “than to live with hypocrisy”.

“However, from then on, I was contacted by several people, both magistrates and outside the judiciary, to rethink my decision”, added Pitta Gróz, stressing that he changed the decision taking into account that the public interest must come first.

“That's how it was all my life. I defend that the best campaign is work, observation of ethical values, respect, transparency and coherence in acting...in doing...in interaction", he communicated to the members of the CSMMP that on the 24th they will choose three names.

Those with the most votes will be presented to the President of the Republic who will choose the new Attorney General of the Republic from among them, predicting “a close and very difficult vote”, according to one of the sources that Lusa contacted.

Among the 21 voting members of the CSMMP, ten are external, six of whom are appointed by the National Assembly (four by the MPLA and two by UNITA).

On December 20 of last year, the plenary of the Superior Council of the Magistracy of the Public Ministry had already proposed to the President of the Republic the reappointment of Hélder Pitta Gróz, for a five-year term.

According to the Maka Angola website, run by journalist and activist Rafael Marques de Morais, at the plenary meeting of the CSMMP on December 16, Pitta Gróz, also president of this body, will have imposed the decision on his re-candidacy, excluding the participation of any other candidate .

A week later, on December 23, he “communicated to the plenary of the CSMMP that he had informed the President of the Republic, in writing, that he was renouncing his candidacy for a second term, as a result of the failure of his apparent coup attempt to succeed himself. ”, wrote Maka Angola at the time, noting that a meeting minutes were not produced as defined by law.

General Hélder Pitta Gróz, 67 years old, born in Luanda, replaced João Maria de Sousa in the position of PGR João Maria de Sousa, in 2017, and was at the time of his appointment the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic for the Military Sphere and Military Attorney of the Forces Armed.

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