The position was expressed by representatives of JURA, youth organization of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), JPA, Convergência Ample de Salvação de Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), JURS, Party of Renewal Social (PRS) and JFNLA, National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA).
They joined the youth party organizations, "to make known national and international public opinion, their indignation at the constant violations by the ruling party of constitutionally enshrined rights and freedoms", the Angolan Student Movement (MEA), the Third Cacuaco Division, the Union of the Peoples of Angola (UPA), the Contestatory Civil Society (SCC) and the Associação Nova Aliança dos Taxi Drivers of Angola (ANATA).
In a press conference, these organizations "strongly" repudiated the "arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of citizens, young people in particular".
"We cannot accept that citizens continue to be mistreated, just because they think differently. We have shocking examples of the brutal behavior of National Police agents, as is the recent case in the provinces of Uíje and Zaire in the latter, defenseless young demonstrators were attacked, to the brink of death. At a time when the President of the Republic is speaking at the UN General Assembly, what image of the country does one want to portray in the end?", they question.
Young people refuse that "these practices continue to make their way". "The militant card cannot continue to have greater importance in relation to the identity card", they criticize, also expressing concern with the steep rise in the prices of tuition fees and emoluments in educational institutions, with an emphasis on higher education.
The group appealed to the Ministries of Education, Higher Education and Finance "to assume their true role in ensuring balance because of the mercantilist spirit of some leaders of the ruling party".
According to the young people, current prices do not reflect the reality of Angolan students, asking for a review of the measure.
"The leaders are also concerned about what was announced in the middle of the pre-electoral campaign, about the new political-administrative division that could culminate in the emergence of five more provinces in the country. They call for the holding of free, fair and fair elections. transparent, to safeguard the achievements achieved so far, which is everyone's duty", they stressed.
The young people, underlining the "several problems that afflict Angolans, with particular emphasis on youth, who are deprived of employment, housing, health, quality education, lack of access to opportunities", called for the youth to go en masse to the posts of issuing an identity card, as well as to the electoral registration sites, which opened today throughout the country, to be qualified to vote, "indispensable to change the current situation in Angola".
