In a statement, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the party forces and civil society in their support in these general elections for the alternation of power, say that they are facing "the flagrant violation of their electoral campaign rights and the freedoms fundamentals of citizens".
In view of the situation, they denounced that "they were summoned and intimidated throughout the country not to carry out a national march, whose motto was the Defense of Legality and Equal Treatment, having created disturbance and even giving up the march in some provinces".
According to the note, the march had been called to protest about violations of the Constitution and the law, embodied in the "non-publication of provisional lists of voters, non-publication of electoral rolls, the presence of dead in the Ficheiro de Cidadãos Maiores" (Ficm), the threats and intimidation carried out by the Government through the Minister of State and head of the Military House of the President of the Republic, General Francisco Pereira Furtado, and the defamatory attacks on UNITA leaders, insinuating that they are promoting actions to destabilize the country ".
UNITA and the united patriotic forces also underline that the authorities, along with the statement from the government of the province of Luanda, which rejected the letter in which they informed about the intention of holding the march, last Saturday, in the capital, "gave guidance to the security forces to stop this march across the country."
"UNITA and the united patriotic forces, in the same way, reiterate that the unequal treatment of campaign activities has reached scandalous and criminal levels, since the regime party benefits from favor treatment in its campaign activities and in the spaces news and special campaign programs, after their airtime on Rádio Nacional de Angola and Televisão Pública de Angola", the note highlights.
The second political force in Angola and the united patriotic forces "demand from the authorities scrupulous respect for the Constitution and the law, equal and impartial treatment of all competing political forces and a republican posture of all State institutions, obeying only the interests national, and not to the particular interests of any political force".
"Angola is our homeland, our space for common coexistence and for the defense of the national interest, which is the combination of our collective effort", highlights the document.
For UNITA and the united patriotic forces, "there is no reason why the elections should not be peaceful, in harmony and concord and even in a festive atmosphere, not the fanfare of dictatorship, but the celebration of democracy".
