Adalberto Costa Júnior was speaking at a joint act in which a political declaration was read, initialed by him, by the president of the Democratic Bloc, Filomeno Vieira Lopes, and by the leader of the PRA-JA Servir Angola political project, Abel Chivukuvuku.
The leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) said that the party currently in power is not prepared to be an opposition.
"It is clear that whoever governs us today shows clear and worrying signs that he is not prepared to leave power and the democratic man must always be prepared to play his role, if he is in opposition, it is a noble position of participation, because without opposition there are not the necessary alerts for governance, there is distraction," he said.
According to Costa Júnior, whoever is in power "thinks he was born to govern others, that power belongs to him by permanent and definitive inheritance, and effectively denotes difficulties with some tranquility in treating the other as a brother and not as an enemy".
"A political opponent is not an enemy, he is a competitor, a competitor and competition enhances and improves content," he added.
Adalberto Costa Júnior appealed to Angolans not to let themselves be "transported by radicalism", stressing that the group already knows that "there are many levels" at which "a campaign is already being waged against the Patriotic Front".
"It was stated here and I will do it again, our commitment to format, I think by the end of this month, the definitive public announcement of the front's leadership, of its composition, but also the fact that we are in a movement with the doors open until to the [general 2022] elections," he added.
According to the UNITA leader, this front "has the sensitivity and patriotic commitment to do differently, to correct those who are tired of a governance in which they no longer have inspiration".
In his intervention, Chivukuvuku expressed that leading the front is not the most important thing for him, but merely integrating the new political project, to respond to the Angolans' desire and desire for change.
"There is a misperception in our country, built over the years, that brother Abel only accepts being number one where he is. I had a master in life who taught me that in life the most important thing is not titles, because the titles exist today and tomorrow they don't. My master said: today I can promote you and tomorrow I'll demote you, today I can nominate you and tomorrow I'll dismiss you, but no one will be able to take away your purpose and whatever is in your head", he said.
According to Abel Chivukuvuku, its purpose is to serve the country, regardless of titles or positions, to be a protagonist of the qualitative change in society.
"Soon the country will know what the three of us agree and what the leadership of the United Patriotic Front will be," he stressed, stressing that it is urgent to work "with flexibility and rigor, but above all with speed and prudence" so that may soon announce to the country and its citizens the emergence of this new political phenomenon, "which should transmit faith and hope" to those who feel "frustrated and discouraged".
The leader of the Democratic Bloc, on the other hand, considered that the regime is exhausted, a feeling that is extended to the opposition.
"The regime has to change, but it is not only the regime that is exhausted, the opposition is also exhausted. We have been proposing new things for decades, making appeals, in parliament every year the opposition suggests, let's get to 20 per 1 percent for education, 15 percent for health, 10 percent for agriculture, at least 1% for scientific research, none of that happens. The opposition is exhausted, it has a wall in front of it, it has a barrier, no can develop your program," he criticized.
Filomeno Vieira Lopes said that civil society is also exhausted and youth has already gone beyond its limits.
"We are all exhausted. If we appreciate well, the great forums of civil society, which have been proposing recommendations to our Government, the churches themselves, the epistles of the bishops and other church groups that issue suggestions for reconciliation and peace, development from this country, they emit opinions, all of them hit the bar," stressed the politician, giving the example of the debate on local elections, announced for 2020, but not held.
