"This is the result, poverty has increased, hunger has increased, the situation is difficult, very difficult. What we are going through now is not normal", Liberty Chiaka told journalists, urged to comment on the first year of João Lourenço, re-elected in the general elections on 24 August 2022 and invested in office on 15 September of the same year.
The leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) considered that "the President has failed, the executive has failed", arguing that "it was supposed that the living conditions of Angolans, in 2023, a year after the elections", would be better than they had in August 2022.
"This is how governance should work, this is how a Government committed to the well-being of the people should act. All measures, all intelligence, energy, imagination, creativity, all ingenuity, should have been committed to improving the living conditions of Angolans", he stressed.
According to the deputy of Angola's second political organization, "unfortunately, the situation has worsened".
"It would be normal for us now to have more qualified, empowered companies working for people's prosperity", underlined Liberty Chiaka, accusing the Government of giving preference to only four companies in contracting services.
"What do we have? Four companies handpicked by the Government, the only ones that do everything and anything else. They are in construction, food, catering, they are in everything, it is not possible", he criticized, stressing that, in On the other hand, "most companies no longer have opportunities to win projects, have money, increase the income of companies, families and their own income".
The leader of the UNITA parliamentary group also spoke of the devaluation of the national currency, the kwanza, which "in the last three, four months, has devalued by 80 percent".
"Everyone knows that, how are we going to say that we have a government in these conditions? This is the brief reading that we do, with great regret, of our very difficult, painful social and economic condition", he added.
