"Because in the end it is not the TC, in the end what has been failing us, repeatedly, is the direction of the MPLA, so what there are there are guidelines from the direction of the MPLA and President João [Lourenço], president of the MPLA, is that is giving guidelines for the court to fail Abel ", said Abel Chivukuvuku, in an interview with the Catholic Emitter of Angola.
Chivukuvuku, who was reacting to the third lead of the TC, in the process of legalizing the Angolan Renaissance Party-Juntos por Angola-Servir Angola (PRA-JA Servir Angola) said that that instance "receives instructions" not to legalize his party.
The TC rejected the "extraordinary appeal of unconstitutionality" submitted by the installer of the political project PRA-JA Servir Angola, led by Abel Chivukuvuku, for "not making up for shortcomings" and making his request "undecipherable".
According to the order of rejection of 27 August 2020 of the Angolan TC, consulted Monday by Lusa, the initially called "Extraordinary Appeal for Violation" brought by PRA-JA Servir Angola instead of supplying insufficiencies "demonstrates a clear intention to confuse the Constitutional ".
Everything else that has been said in the application now presented, the TC said, demonstrates "a clear intention of the appellant, through its representative, to confuse this court, such is the ambiguous way in which it wove all its legal-procedural exposition".
This Tuesday, in statements to Catholic radio, Chivukuvuku denied non-compliance with the rules and clauses established by law, stating that it is a persecution of the MPLA.
"The MPLA is unable to adjust to the new framework of democracy, freedom of the citizen, plurality, rule of law and this is that the real problem, it is enough to see that the court answered us in two days, when in the previous process the court had 15 days, but it was 20 days ", he said.
The politician reiterated his confidence to the lawyers of PRA-JA Servir Angola, who within eight days will file a new appeal to the Constitutional, "now with the allegations".
For Abel Chivukuvuku, the "lack of an official notification" about the new rejection order, signed by the vice president of the Constitutional Court, Guilhermina Prata, translates into "TC's bad faith".
"There is no transparency and smoothness in that court, this is banditry," he shot.
Abel Chivukuvuku pointed out as an example that he was notified on Monday, but before that "the court campaigned fully, through the state media", when "it has to notify the interested parties before campaigning".
Asked about the possibility of joining a political opposition party, Chivukuvuku said he would continue to do politics across the country, without, however, specifying a future membership.
This is the third time that the TC has rejected an appeal by the installation commission of PRA-JA Servir Angola with insufficient signatures for its legalization for one of the reasons.
The legalization process has been underway since November 2019, when political training sent 23,492 signatures to the court, of which 19,000 were rejected, with various justifications, including minority and lack of authenticity of the residence certificates.
