The head of state was elected following the victory of the party of which he is leader, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), in the general elections of 24 August 2022 and invested on 15 September of the same year, for a second term, after the first one he served between 2017 and 2022.
For the also university professor, from the social point of view "things have deteriorated", because "the life of the Angolan has become more difficult, a consequence of a non-transparent governance".
"In other words, today the products in the basic basket are more expensive, which makes the lives of Angolans increasingly precarious. Many families are having only one meal a day, because they are not being able to complete all the products so that their children can feed themselves", he stressed.
In an analysis of economic issues, Albino Pakissi stressed that businessmen also complain of an "increasingly more difficult" life, with some being forced to close their companies and lay off people.
According to Albino Pakissi, what has been verified is that "neither national nor international businessmen" want to invest in this "precarious environment", also marked by "legal insecurity", that is, a judicial power that "is somewhat compromised, as if held by political power".
Regarding political power, the analyst understands that there is "a kind of open war" that has been witnessed in recent days, with speeches, in his perspective, "very muscular, essentially in Luanda", due to "the strength of UNITA [União Nacional for the Total Independence of Angola]".
According to Albino Pakissi, UNITA, through its leader, Adalberto da Costa Júnior, "who is not standing still", has developed a journey, which is making the ruling party realize that its biggest political opponent "has been very strong , pointing out very serious errors in governance, which has made the MPLA a little nervous".
"This is the analysis that I make in politics and we have noticed every day that the positions are becoming more and more intensified, each one affirms his own, this means that we are able to see, for example, rallies in Luanda, where the first secretary of the MPLA , which is Manuel Homem, uses very harsh words to characterize UNITA", he stressed.
A relevant fact in this first year of João Lourenço's mandate, continued Albino Pakissi, is "this great departure from UNITA, which is effectively for the removal of the President of the Republic", based on the Constitution, which in its article 129 "says that the President of the Republic can effectively be removed".
"And the reasons that UNITA uses for the removal of the President of the Republic are very clear", said Albino Pakissi, listing one of them, which is "the fact that in this government of President João Lourenço, in the six years, more than 200 people at demonstrations".
"People were killed, shot dead. UNITA understands, and I'm glad, that this constitutes a crime, and it is a crime, because the police are killing, UNITA is right", said Pakissi, adding that the second political force in Angola he also understands "that there has been no transparency in the governance" of the head of state.
Albino Pakissi stresses that the MPLA Political Bureau, in its response to the UNITA initiative, responded in a "completely muscular" way, instead of using, like its political opponent, the Constitution in its arguments.
"The great truth is that the Political Bureau does not rule the deputies, because the deputies belong to the people and also the great truth - and the MPLA knows this - (...) is that UNITA will be able to get deputies for this, because there is many MPLA deputies who are not with President João Lourenço, do not like him, for a very simple reason, because he mistreated former President [of the Republic] José Eduardo dos Santos, and there are many deputies in the National Assembly who want to see him fall", he referred.
A dismissal, underlined the analyst, does not mean the calling of elections, nor the dissolution of parliament, reiterating that the initiative "constitutes a very big fact", because "immediately, the President of the Republic began to receive many associations, young people, zungueiras [street vendors], to hear from them how to do it".
"The President is going too late, because if he really knew how to listen, there are many things in the country that would be done very well", he said, calling for "some calm" so that "the sharpening of positions in the speech does not go into practice".
