The position is set out in a political declaration signed this Thursday by the leaders of the United Patriotic Front, the presidents of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Adalberto Costa Júnior, of the Democratic Bloc, Filomeno Vieira Lopes, and of the political project PRA-JA Serving Angola, Abel Chivukuvuku.
"Hunger, health, education, unemployment, housing, and crime have become national security problems and need to be treated as such," the statement said.
The front also considers that the time has come for those with the power to declare a state of public calamity in southern Angola, affected by a severe drought, and to use the appropriate mechanisms so that the international agencies dedicated to it intervene on the ground, sparing the lives of thousands of Angolans, "who flee to Namibia or die malnourished and exhausted in the forests and along the route to the neighboring country."
For the tripartite front, the general situation of calamity calls for extraordinary measures to control the price of the basic food basket, the pandemics "that kill more Angolans than covid-19 and the pandemic of bad governance," advocating the lifting of the sanitary fence to Luanda to help the country's economy.
"Angolans want rulers who are patriotic, who love the people, respect the law and are not corrupt. They do not want rulers who are committed to saving their parties, but rulers committed to saving Angola and Angolans," the document read, reaffirming the need for new leadership for the country.
"We are structuring this new leadership to give the country a new beginning, a new direction," the document stresses, calling for the unity of all for "a new way of doing politics and to ensure that the law actually protects the interest of all, rich, poor, Angolans and foreigners and so that no one is excluded or harassed," it stressed.
The group of politicians said that the future advocated for Angola, after the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) left power, foresees "the dignity of the human person," promising to turn the page for an effective reconciliation among Angolans.
The Angolans are not to fear the MPLA's exit from power, because they intend to "govern with everyone," including those who are now in government, forming a government of competent people and not party militants.
