The National Assembly scheduled a joint meeting for this Wednesday, in particular, to discuss the Draft Law on the Effective Institutionalization of Local Authorities, of the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and the Proposed Law of the Institutionalization of Local Authorities, of the executive.
Speaking to the press, UNITA deputy and president of the State Administration and Local Power Commission, Franco Marcolino Nhany, said that the consultation aims to reach a conclusion, to facilitate the approval of the law that is missing.
"The two projects, as the MPLA vice-president said, have aspects in which we are divergent, fracturing, and there are many of them [in which there is] agreement, therefore, with this exercise that will be carried out, I hope that within a very short time let us have a single project to be debated in the specialty", he said.
In turn, the first vice-president of the parliamentary group of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Virgílio Tyova, said that, in this meeting, the other parties with parliamentary seats will also participate - the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA), the Social Renewal Party (PRS) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA).
Stressing that Angolans are interested in creating local authorities, Virgílio Tyova stated that, for this reason, the two parliamentary groups decided to find a way for the two projects to converge and have a single one for debate in the field.
According to the deputy from the majority party, there are convergent and acceptable standards in the two diplomas, with the certainty that there will also be divergences.
Tyova stated that the leaders of the two parliamentary groups decided to create an inter-party negotiating committee, so that, before debating the respective laws, they could approximate positions and prepare a single project to be presented for debate in the specialized committees.
The two diplomas on the institutionalization of local authorities were generally approved without votes against.
Angola is completing the approval of a set of laws, called the autarchic legislative package, consisting of 13 legal instruments, ten of which have already been approved, defining the powers of the municipal function, composition and functioning of the municipalities, as well as the principles and rules.
The President, João Lourenço, had appointed 2020 as the expected year for holding the first local elections in the country, with the lack of completion of the local legislative package being one of the reasons for the delay.
