"We are looking for President João Lourenço of 2017, 2018 and 2019," said this Tuesday the president of the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Liberty Chiyaka.
For the UNITA politician, who was speaking this Tuesday at a press conference in Luanda on the "Crisis of Trust in Public Institutions," the fight against corruption, in the country, "has been replaced by the protection of 'yes man' comrades, friends and allies of the power management strategy."
"It is urgent to fight hypocrisy," urged Liberty Chiyaka.
The fight against corruption, impunity and nepotism are some of the main axes of governance of João Lourenço, who has been in power for almost four years.
According to the MP, in 2017, the President "had the change in his hands", but, he noted, "between saving the country or his party, MPLA, he preferred to save a group of comrades, so the country has regressed a lot".
Liberty Chiyaka considered that Angola "is today a less inclusive, less free and less democratic country than it was two years ago" to justify what she calls the "kidnapping" of the President.
"The judiciary is today a crutch of autocratic executive power," he said, adding that "the dream fed by the inauguration speech and some acts worthy of a reformist statesman has become a nightmare."
In this environment of "fear, state terrorism and affirmation of a new autocratic power, many Angolans have no confidence in health institutions, so they prefer to die rather than be at the mercy of the regime's specialty committees of doctors and sick people," he noted.
He also regretted the death of six UNITA deputies, in the last six months, noting that "some of them would not have died, at this stage, if it were not for the fears and mistrust of political order that dwell within many Angolans".
The Angolan congressman also said that "there are well-founded fears that keep many of his compatriots and friends away from public hospitals.
This situation of distrust and fear, he explained, "has nothing to do with the technical competence" of health professionals, but with "structural factors of aggression against the democratic state and the rule of law", pointing out "the partisanization of state institutions and the existence of specialty committees of doctors and nurses of the ruling party, a unique case in the world".
The UNITA parliamentary leader also accused the public media, the information services, the institutional communication and psychological action offices of the President, "paid with public money", of being "transformed into partisan organs of demonization and criminalization of the main political opponents".
Angola "needs to reflect on the direction the country is taking and redesign the essence of public political engagement. The power of that be a means to serve the society", defended the deputy.
The "social and economic crisis", of the last five years, "provoked by the petro-dependency and the low price of the barrel of oil, aggravated in the last 12 months by covid-19", was also deplored by the UNITA politician.
Chiyaka also announced that his parliamentary group decided to declare May 8, day of the death of the deputy Raul Danda, as the Day of the Deputy of the UNITA Parliamentary Group, period in which all deputies and former deputies will be annually honored.
The official also saluted May 25, Africa Day, which is celebrated this Tuesday, and "praised the spirit of the founding fathers of the African Union who aspired to a united, democratic, developed and prosperous Africa.
