The political bureau of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) called this Thursday the press to read a statement, without the right to ask questions, a day after the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), have announced that they will present in the National Assembly a request for the removal of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
"In view of the established reality, the seriousness of the accusations and acts that have been irresponsibly carried out by UNITA, against the President of the Republic, Head of State, Holder of Executive Power and Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, the MPLA's Political Bureau advises his parliamentary group to take all measures to ensure that the Angolan parliament is not exploited, to carry out plans based on a clear subversive agenda, immature and of total political irresponsibility", said the Secretary for Information of the MPLA MPLA Political Bureau.
Rui Falcão, who read the statement, said that UNITA "with this irresponsible and anti-democratic behavior" indicates that "it intends to assume an attitude of rupture with institutional dialogue, especially in the seat of the National Assembly".
"This action carried out in the sense of removing the President of the Republic, without facts that are supported by the Constitution, can only be created by a political organization, which, aware of its notorious and increasingly evident inability to coexist in a democratic and pluralistic society, does not hesitate to provoke an institutional environment contrary to what the MPLA, through its parliamentary group, proclaimed a few days ago, in the sense of a greater dialogue of inclusion in the political debate", he said.
The MPLA Secretary for Information recalled "that UNITA's leadership itself, which welcomed the dialogue initiative presented by the MPLA parliamentary group and which, as a result, presented a proposal for a dialogue agenda, comes with its pronouncement that has just become public, demonstrate a total absence of seriousness, of sense of State, of availability, for the healthy and harmonious institutional coexistence".
According to the Secretary for Information, the MPLA has been following the strategy of the main opposition party, "regarding the seizure of power outside the informal institutional framework, in total disrespect for the Angolan people and their sovereign will" manifested in the last general elections.
"The strategy of creating a climate of institutional instability, which has long been denounced, has been applied with permanent recourse to the discredit of State institutions and the attempt to create a political framework that justifies the popular uprising and the rise of UNITA to exercise of power, without the necessary democratic legitimacy, knowing that this will be the only way to someday be in power in Angola", said Rui Falcão.
The statement underlines that "some top leaders" of UNITA have "a clear notion that the armed insurrection of the past can now be disguised as an eventual popular insurrection, as they have proclaimed in the various locations where they have passed".
The MPLA leader stressed that, after the Angolan people had given their vote of confidence to the leader of the party, "UNITA deeply felt the fact that its opportunity to be in power was postponed for another five years".
"And he did not hesitate to create a set of suspicions to support the argument of the illegitimacy of the victory, with the sole purpose of preventing the free exercise of power by the MPLA", he highlighted.
Rui Falcão also stated that the largest opposition party "never had the courage to assume that the MPLA was victorious in 143 of the 164 municipalities in the country and that in ten provinces, the MPLA won in all municipalities".
"In particular in Bié, Huambo, Huíla, Namibe, Cunene, Moxico, Lunda Sul, Cuanza Norte, Cuando Cubango and Malanje, this is the naked truth", he stressed.
According to Rui Falcão, "the Angolan people, aware of the recent past and of UNITA's current strategy, will never make themselves available for the creation of situations that disturb the social peace, harmony and stability achieved" that allow Angolans to live together in difference and diversity.
"The political bureau calls on all Angolan citizens to maintain serenity, cohesion and respect for difference and its militants, friends and supporters to maintain a high sense of vigilance and close ranks around the firm leadership of comrade President João Lourenço", he concluded.
