Abel Chivukuvuku, coordinator of the Installation Commission of the Angolan Renaissance Party - Together for Angola - Servir Angola (PRA-JA), spoke this Thursday at the meeting of the 'Task Force', which considered the appeal to the plenary of the Constitutional Court, which dismissed the request for nullity of the order rejecting the registration of the political project.
The PRA-JA Servir Angola Installing Committee, announced this Thursday that it was going to make an extraordinary appeal to the national judicial bodies due to the court's refusal to legalise the party.
The position is set out in the 'Talatona Declaration', a document that emerged from the 'Task Force' meeting. The document states that, in addition to the extraordinary appeal before national courts, a working group will be set up to study the procedures to be carried out before international political and judicial bodies.
According to Abel Chivukuvuku, in 2012 he considered that if he tried to create a political party he would be "stopped" and tried to participate in national political life through existing parties, but without relevance in society.
"That's why we already knew that if we tried, in 2012, they would have failed too". He decided, in the meantime, to look for another way, of self-assertion, with the process of creating the PRA-JA Servir Angola, however made impossible until now, "out of fear" and because "they have a notion of the feeling of the citizen".
"They have mechanisms to reap the citizens' state of mind, so they can see that at the moment the country is not with them and that is why they have this tendency to try to stop everyone else," he said.
The politician, who in 2012 created the Broad Convergence of Salvation of Angola - Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), the second-largest opposition party, from which he was removed by internal problems in February 2019, said PRA-JA Servir Angola "is already a reality in the lives of citizens," so it will continue "on the path of struggle" for the new political formation.
"We have to fight for democracy in Angola, we have to fight for the democratic state in Angola, for social justice, we have to be the voice of the most unprotected in this country, this is the purpose", Abel Chivukuvuku stressed, giving assurances that if there are local elections this year, it will be present, as well as in the general elections of 2022.
According to Abel Chivukuvuku, the current challenge has to do with the country's situation, characterized by an increase in the degradation of the lives of Angolans in the last four years.
"Despair today plagues most Angolan families, to make matters worse today comes the covid-19 and the government is swinging strategies, up and down, and taking advantage of the pandemic to once again assert their authoritarian instincts, because at the moment the quality of our democratic process is in frank decline," he said.
Perseverance and firmness are the guidelines, according to Abel Chivukuvuku, because the fight for PRA-JA Servir Angola continues.
"Life has taught that there are always ways to achieve good in society," he said, adding that "there is widespread indignity in the country.
"The country is attentive and who is currently promoting our cause is the regime itself in the country, with the acts that it practices against us. If we were so small, why would they be afraid? Because we represent something, which is the feeling of the citizen", he said.
In August 2019, a group of citizens led by Abel Chivukuvuku formally handed over to the Constitutional Court the preliminary documents required for the creation of a new political force called PRA-JA Servir Angola, which since then has received successive failures from the court, for allegedly insufficient documents, to provide the 7500 signatures required by law for its legalization.
