In the note released this Friday, the BD confirmed that "depending on the understandings with other national political forces for the alternation of power, the Democratic Bloc will not run with its own acronym, or a coalition", in the general elections and will no longer be formally a party with a parliamentary seat.
And he added that "in a tremendous patriotic effort to concentrate votes for alternation", some members of the party will integrate the list of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which resulted from the spirit of the United Patriotic Front (FPU).
"In this sense of the patriotic combination of efforts, the 12 members of the Democratic Bloc who are part of UNITA's lists, headed by its vice-president, Dr. Justino Pinto de Andrade, suspended, in accordance with the law, their militancy in the party", they reported.
The name of Justino Pinto de Andrade appears in fourth place in the UNITA list, which is headed by the president of the "Black Rooster" party Adalberto da Costa Júnior, followed by the former leader who left to form the CASA-CE coalition, Abel Chivukuvuku, and Arlete Chimbinda, current vice-president of UNITA and deputy.
The statement said that the party's president, Filomeno Vieira Lopes, is not part of the list, as he had previously told Lusa, as well as the secretary general of the BD, Muata Sebastião, in order to ensure the "continuous normal functioning of the structures".
As a result of this format of participation in the UNITA list, the Democratic Bloc, in the next legislature, will formally cease to be a party with a parliamentary seat, the document revealed.
"However, the independent deputies, appointed by the BD, will know, working with the citizens, to maintain the party line expressed in the agreements for the reform of the State, the amendment of the Constitution and anti-democratic laws and the sacred defense of causes and social struggles", added the party.
The Democratic Bloc stressed that "political alternation is the path to the real changes that are expected" for the country, "being the spirit that moves the FPU platform" and urged all forces involved, including civil society, to "understand with integrity the depth of national interest at stake in these 2022 elections".
