Carolina Cerqueira addressed the deputies this Thursday at the beginning of the 7th ordinary plenary meeting of the National Assembly, which takes place after a national demonstration, held last Saturday, repressed in Luanda and Benguela by the National Police, in a confrontation with demonstrators.
According to the president of the parliament, the appeal, without intending that the deputies waive "their freedom of expression, rights that democracy gives them", is also in the sense that they do not "make statements that incite civil disobedience and public disorder, vandalism of public and private property, behavior that disrupts social cohesion and stability".
"So I leave a request, I underline, I leave a request, to all ladies and gentlemen, not to join voluntarily or involuntarily, through presence, and/or not incite any event or action that may have the potential to become in a materialization of violation of the rule of law", exhorted Carolina Cerqueira.
The president of the National Assembly recalled "the central nature of the role of this sovereign body of the rule of law", stressing that the parliament in the constitutional system consists of a central sovereignty body of democracy and concomitantly of the rule of law.
"Thus, I appeal to all, gentlemen and women deputies, without ever ignoring their opinion and freedom of expression, rights that democracy confers on them, so that they do not associate with actions or demonstrations that are actions that violate laws or adopt behaviors of social peace and make statements that incite civil disobedience and public disorder, vandalism of public and private property, behaviors that disturb social cohesion and stability", she said.
The parliamentary group of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the majority party, sent a request to the National Assembly, to schedule in the period before the agenda, for discussion, on "Citizens' Rights and Freedom versus Acts of Public Disorder" , whose approval in favor met unanimously.
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) also submitted a proposal to parliament for discussion and voting on a protest vote "against police violence, the murder of six citizens in the city of Huambo, on June 5th and against the kidnapping of deputy Domingos Balanga, the UNITA parliamentary group and four civic activists in the city of Huambo", but was rejected.
Saturday's demonstration against the rise in fuel prices, specifically gasoline, was attended by JURA, the youth arm of UNITA, the largest opposition party, and the presence of some of its deputies.
In a statement released after the demonstrations, the National Police held UNITA responsible for the disturbances registered in Luanda and Benguela, with the party considering the accusations "politically motivated", considering filing a criminal case against the organ's spokesman, for the crimes of slander and defamation.
Around one hundred people were arrested during and before the nationwide protests against rising fuel prices, the end of street vending and the change in the status of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
UNITA deputies Adriano Sapinala (provincial secretary of Luanda) and Nelito Ekuikui (leader of JURA) have denounced on their social networks what they consider to be manipulation in the public media, complaining that they are not entitled to exercise the contradictory.
Last week, JURA said it had become aware of "the macabre plan that the regime wants to carry out", infiltrating people linked to the regime and security forces in the demonstration in Luanda "with the sole aim of creating disturbances, injuring people, damaging public means and blame UNITA for any damage, as usual".
