The winner of the competition to design the flag and insignia of the National Assembly (parliament) was announced in a statement published in Jornal de Angola.
The "institutionalization of these symbols", according to a note posted on the parliament's website, "has the objective of promoting and projecting the National Assembly as one of the organs of sovereignty, which must be respected by all citizens".
The parliament's flag, says the document, "should adopt the same dimensions as the National Flag of Angola and should be used daily outside the palace of the National Assembly, office buildings to support deputies from provincial constituencies and other facilities" of that body.
The insignia will be "on the various graphic materials, physical or digital, as well as on representative elements of the organ's dignity (deputies' badge, medal, lapel pins and others".
According to the note, the parliamentary hammer, already used by the president of the National Assembly, is in wooden format with a total weight of six kilograms.
The end of the fourth legislative session of the fourth legislature of the Angolan parliament is scheduled for Friday and the parliamentary symbols should be appreciated in the session.
During the fourth parliamentary year 2020/2021, the National Assembly held a solemn plenary meeting and 13 ordinary plenary meetings, 10 extraordinary plenary meetings, an ordinary plenary meeting of the interparliamentary group, 11 table meetings, 13 conferences of the chairpersons of the parliamentary groups and others .
The National Assembly is composed of 220 deputies elected in the general elections of 2017, divided into 150 from the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA, in power), 51 from UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), 16 from Convergência Ampla of Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), two from the Social Renewal Party (PRS) and one from the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA).
