Adalberto Costa Júnior sketched this portrait of the country when opening the national conference on Geopolitics and National Security promoted by the shadow government of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
According to Adalberto Costa Júnior, "the regime took bad governance – compounded by a corrupt, venal and decrepit structure – to the extreme of now forcing the country not only to have to sell the rings, but possibly also the fingers, if so clamorous governance errors persist".
"The disaster is more than evident in the situation of insolvency (bankruptcy) that the MPLA [Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola] has led and is leading the country. Unfortunately, we have reached the levels of decay and disrepair that are observed today only due to governmental negligence. For lack of wisdom in the management of public affairs", said the president of UNITA.
For Adalberto Costa Júnior, Angola has seen a setback with regard to development and national security, so "it makes perfect sense" to hold this conference, which "should not ignore an aspect indissolubly linked to national security, which is the assessment of stage of the Democratic and Rule of Law State in Angola".
The UNITA leader underlined that 31 years after the multiparty elections of September 1992 took place, "democracy in Angola remains so fragile, and this constitutes one of the greatest dangers that society and the State are confronted with at the present time - a specter capable of jeopardizing the unity and subsistence of Angolans".
"But it is in the current and current cycle, more than at any other time, that one notices a greater and clear degeneration of the national political system and, even, of the regime, its policies and the nomenclature that sustains it", he said.
"Only a blind man cannot see that the MPLA Executive has failed to comply with one of the legal assumptions which consists of the constitutional responsibility to guarantee and consolidate the Democratic State and the rule of law in Angola. Deliberately, or just out of ineptitude, the building of Angolan democracy is clearly in a serious crisis and threatens to collapse!", he stressed.
According to the UNITA leader, the separation between powers "is increasingly shattering", the most obvious example being "the immorality that prevails today in the judicial system, where the superior courts and the respective magistrates have surrendered to the State party regime and most of them prove to be puppets of the one-person power of the President of the Republic", highlighting the situation of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who "remains in office despite successive abuses and illegalities that have been accumulating, in the face of a society that accompanies such a spectacle in disbelief".
The UNITA president pointed out that the rulers have shown "an attitude of someone who has dropped the service and the concept of serving everyone and the country", which has caused in the most different segments of society "uncertainty, discouragement and disenchantment in the face of a harsh reality and a lack of governance that impoverishes the country and exposes everyone".
Faced with this situation, continued Adalberto Costa Júnior, there have been multiple manifestations triggered by various socio-professional sectors and young people, claiming rights and expressing desires.
"Today, many express that they are fed up with the autocratic system that restricts the constitutionally provided fundamental freedoms and guarantees. But the way in which the demonstrations have been repressed corresponds to a typical behavior of totalitarian and security states", he said.
According to the UNITA leader, the repression always happens "with the unreasonable and senseless argument that the demonstrations aim, purely and simply, to overthrow the institutions, when they are in reality anchored to a constitutional right, repeatedly disrespected. As a consequence, conflicts and tensions, absolutely unnecessary".
