According to the sentence, to which Lusa had access, the court accepted the action brought by a group of parents against the Portuguese Cooperative of Teaching in Angola (CPEA), ordering this entity, which manages EPL, to refrain from increasing the value of the fees until they are set at a general meeting convened for this purpose by the chairman of the general assembly or judicially, at the request of the cooperators.
The CPEA is also "ordered not to place any obstacle and to accept the enrollment of all pupils educated by the cooperators for the 2021/2022 school year" and to refrain from "any conduct that puts at risk the fundamental right of the pupils to attend school," reads the document, dated July 9.
The decision is yet another episode in the war between a group of cooperants who accuse EPL's management of "violations" of the statutes and illegal increases in fees, calling for their dismissal.
Last year, some 300 cooperative members of CPEA signed a petition calling for an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the revision of the bylaws and proposed the dismissal of the cooperative's current social bodies and the appointment of an interim management committee.
The CPEA has rejected the charges, claiming that an attempt to seize power is at issue, and justified the increases imposed in the 2020/2021 school year with the need to ensure the survival of the school.
