"Yes, it is healthy and the measurement of forces between both [UNITA and MPLA] will launch an indicator on the trend of voting in Luanda in the next elections. It is the great political forces that have been galvanizing political competition in Angola", said Osvaldo Mboco to Lusa.
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola has scheduled a mass political act for Saturday in Luanda, the day the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola will also take to the streets with an act of the kind.
João Lourenço, president of the MPLA, will lead his party's initiative, and Adalberto Costa Júnior, leader of UNITA, will lead the activity of the "Black Rooster" party in the largest political and electoral square in the country.
For Osvaldo Mboco, the political activities of Saturday, in Luanda, translate into a measurement of forces, considering that Angola has been characterized as a country of "imperfect bipartisanship".
"Because it is only these two parties that have been galvanizing political competition and this mass act in Luanda will constitute a measure of forces", stressed the analyst.
"In my opinion, the political perspective I have is in the sense that the defense and security bodies will have a lot of work to maintain stability in this period, taking into account the possible outbreaks of social upheavals and acts of intolerance that may happen during the act. of masses", he observed.
Mboco also appealed to the need for political leaders from both parties to urge their militants to cultivate "political tolerance, calm, prudence and non-confrontation", on public roads, on a day when Luanda is expected to register intense movement.
"That's why I still defend that one of the parties could postpone its mass act, despite considering that the coincidence of dates is healthy at a certain point", he stressed.
Regarding the content of Saturday's speeches, Osvaldo Mboco believes that UNITA "should continue to expose the failures of the MPLA's governance, during the last five years and beyond, and should also reaffirm its motto of alternation".
"A clear demonstration that it is necessary to have an alternation to change the social, political and economic framework that the country is going through", stressed the also specialist in international relations.
"I have been arguing that the governance program that UNITA will present will not be very far from what it presented in 2017, because there are ideas there that are still structuring and current", he stressed.
The MPLA, "without a shadow of a doubt", he argued, "will present its achievements during this government, the projects that were materialized, those that are in the process of materialization and those that could be materialized if it wins the elections".
"So, the MPLA's speech will gravitate a lot around the results that its governance produced in this period and also the fight against corruption, one of the banners of President João Lourenço, and João Lourenço will certainly link in infrastructures, materialized projects, in ways of materialization and others", concluded Osvaldo Mboco.
For Saturday, the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE) also scheduled a mass political act, in Luanda, in the antechamber of the general elections on 24 August.
