According to the general director of Mosaiko, Friar Júlio Candeeiro, these are some of the points that will be discussed in the seventh edition of the Social Week, a space for reflection and debate for change, scheduled for the 19th, 20th and 21st of July, in Luanda.
Speaking this Wednesday, in a press conference to present "Social Week 2023", the Dominican friar referred that it will be inevitable, at the meeting, to discuss the urgency of the implementation of local authorities.
He also mentioned noticing the devastating effect of blind militancy on economic and social development, a theme that will also be under analysis at this meeting, which takes place under the motto "Local Participation, Global Change".
For Mosaiko, a non-governmental organization, one of the pillars of democracy is participation: "We cannot limit ourselves to the model of representative democracy and the logic that those in power alone make decisions and command".
"When we live a democracy from this point of view, we are incurring the famous dictatorship of the majority. We are defenders of a democracy that combines the representative model, but above all the model of the participatory dimension of democracy", stressed Júlio Candeeiro.
He also lamented the country's current socio-economic situation, considering that today the "cry of hunger is a transversal reality" throughout the country's societies and peripheries and "is not restricted to the south of Angola".
"We just walk through the streets and see the number of people, entire families who go to get food from garbage containers, the situation is worrying", he replied to journalists.
"We have no solutions, but we defend a greater opening of the public space, in fact it is a constitutional right, so that together we can evaluate the models and economic practices implemented so far", he defended.
If in almost 50 years of independence "we have not been able to take care of the basics, maybe we can question whether the economic models and the form of organization of the State that we have adopted until now are helping the country to grow", argued the Catholic priest.
