"At this time, the challenge is to do more and better. In this sense, we exhort the executive to continue and intensify the actions that aim to ensure strict financial management, eliminated the waste of resources and relentlessly fighting corruption," said the president of the Parliamentary Group of the Popular Liberation Movement of Angola (MPLA), Joaquim Reis Júnior.
The deputy who presented his party's political statement, at the opening of Wednesday's plenary meeting in Parliament, also said that a government "is not only measured by the resources it mobilizes, but for the efficiency with which it applies them" and "for the transparency with which it is accountable to society."
Speaking of the meeting where the State General Account (CGE) is considered referring to the 2023 Economic Exercise, Reis Júnior, highlighted, on the other hand, that the budget execution “is not a mere bureaucratic process” but "the materialization of public policies that impact directly on the lives of citizens."
The president of the MPLA parliamentary group also criticized UNITA's “populist populist discourses and promises” and ensured that his party will fight all his strength to defend the “greatest, invaluable and irreplaceable value” of democracy.
Reis Júnior said there are parties and leaders who escape the honest debate in parliament and "want to win by chaos", opting "for the easy path of populism, misinformation and systematic attack on institutions."
"They exchange facts with simplistic slogans, spread lies as if they were truths and feed discredit against the political class of which they are part, against parliament where they have a seat," the MPLA politician said to Unita.
Reis Júnior also said that the opposition does not present concrete solutions to solve the country's problems, but rather "defames opponents" and "when he loses at the polls or voting, instead of peacefully accepting the result, they prefer to fire the streets and sow the disorder."
"This is not political, it is disrespect. I disrespect for democracy, the rule of law and disrespect for the people who elected us. When we transfer complex discussions to improper forums, we risk replacing reason with emotion," he said.
He also criticized the “debate for shouting and the law of the noisiest”, which for the MPLA politician has been the practice of opposition, especially from the National Union for the total independence of Angola (UNITA), at the national assembly level.
"And if we want to protect and reinforce our democracy and its institutions, which a lot of blood, sweat and tears have cost Angolans, this is certainly not the way to follow," he said, noting that a democracy "is not built with riots."
The absence of sense of state “disqualifies us when we intend to be power. No matter how strong it is, as high as one speaks or shouts, no matter how confusion, if there is no sense of state, it is hardly opposed,” insisted the president of the Parliamentary Group the MPLA, also guaranteed, in his intervention, that democracy “will always be a greater, invaluable and unsubstitable value. fight and defend with all your strength. ”
The National Assembly assesses this Wednesday the report of execution of the General Account of the State regarding the economic year of 2023.
