According to a note from the PRA-JA, a request for "narrative certificates" was delivered to the Constitutional Court on Thursday, which includes the "content of documents that were decisive in the illegal judgment that decided to reject the registration of PRA-JA Serving Angola as a political party".
"These are documents that, despite appearing in the Process, the signatory (Abel Chivukuvuku) was never aware of them".
"This procedure is part of the general context of judicial litigation, with a view to legalizing the PRA-JA Servir Angola, in the short term", he adds in a statement.
At the end of a political and ideological training seminar that ended on Thursday, in Bengo, Chivukuvuku underlined that the main objective is to legalize the party and that he will no longer be a deputy if this objective is achieved.
Abel Chivukuvuku, who is part of the United Patriotic Front – a platform that brings together other opposition parties, namely the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Democratic Bloc – told his supporters that if he manages to legalize PRA-JA as a party, Front must keep up.
"It must have a strong and cohesive UNITA, it must have a legal and strong PRA-JA, it must have a strong BD", considering that elections are not only disputed in an election year.
"We have to protect [the FPU] to have an alternation in 2027", stressed the politician, adding that the Front will have to have "another format".
With regard to the PRA-JA in the period from 2023 to 2024, the objective is to legalize the movement, having started a judicial litigation process.
"I have no doubt that they will have to legalize it", he stressed, also answering questions about his future as a deputy, a mandate he obtained within the framework of the United Patriotic Front that ran for the August 2022 general elections.
"Once the PRA-JA has been legalized, I assume the responsibilities of directing the PRA-JA and everything else is secondary", he said, stating that he would leave parliament in that case.
He also addressed the problems of the country, which he said was "bankrupt", which will lead to a "national disaster".
"If the citizen goes into despair and the regime goes into despair, in the short term, the revenue is not good", he warned, stressing that "every month, the regime has to fight to see where it will get money to pay salaries".
The TC definitively rejected, on December 7, 2020, the legalization of the PRA-JA Serving Angola, for "not remedying shortcomings" and presenting "ambiguous allegations", referring a new attempt to four years later, in a process that has been dragging on since 2019.
Abel Chivukuvuku left UNITA in 2012, where he had been a militant since 1974 and former leader, and in the same year he founded the coalition Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola - Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE).
In 2019, he was removed from the presidency by the constituent parties of the coalition for alleged "breach of trust" and in August began the process of legalizing his new political formation, PRA-JA Servir Angola.
The PRA-JA Servir Angola legalization process has dragged on since August 2019, with successive 'leads' from the Constitutional Court, alleging irregularities in the documentation presented for this purpose.
