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Politics Death of José Eduardo dos Santos

Funeral services for JES begin Saturday. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will be present

The funeral ceremonies for José Eduardo dos Santos begin this Saturday and conclude on Sunday, the date on which he would celebrate 80 years, with a state funeral in the presence of several heads of state, including Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

: Dora Pires/TSF
Dora Pires/TSF  

Praça da República, where the funeral monument of the first Angolan president is located, in the António Agostinho Neto Memorial, was again chosen for the funeral ceremonies, after having hosted a public wake without a body shortly after the death of José Eduardo dos Santos, during a seven-day national mourning.

Speaking to journalists, the minister of Territory Administration and spokesperson for the commission in charge of preparing the funeral program, Marcy Lopes, said that from Saturday public tributes could be made in Praça da República.

The urn will leave early in the morning from the family residence in Miramar, in Luanda, with reduced military honors, heading in a funeral procession to Praça da República.

On Sunday there will be military honors in a program that includes lyrical music, reading of messages from the Angolan state and family, from the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), from the José Eduardo Santos Foundation and reading of the funeral eulogy, as well as an ecumenical service, accompanied by choir groups.

After a moment of greeting and the laying of a wreath on the part of the President of the Republic, the urn is left with military honors and the funeral procession begins for the tomb where there will be a restricted ceremony, with representatives of foreign governments.

Among the guests are 21 high-level delegations, including the Presidents of Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa, as well as representatives from Rwanda. , Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Namibia, Timor-Leste and Zambia.

21 cannon salutes will also be heard, with an honorary overflight of aircraft and maneuvers by the Angolan Navy in Chicala Bay, and the ceremonies will conclude with the deposition of the urn in the tomb with a prayer.

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