"Here is an appeal to those who carry the responsibility for carrying out the registration, to stop violating the law, to stop saying that the citizen card is updated and obtained through the identity card or through the in-person registration, but someone comes and says: no, you can give up your identity card and ask for the electricity bill, ask for a contract, and this is enough to assign the citizen card", criticized Adalberto Costa Júnior.
The leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) intervened in a magnificent meeting of the political project PRA-JA Servir Angola, by Abel Chivukuvuku, to assess his participation in the United Patriotic Front, a project being created, which is also part of the Bloc Democratic, for the "alternation of political power in Angola".
According to Adalberto Costa Júnior, who started last week the updating and unofficial registration process for the 2022 general elections, it was possible to "confirm that there is disrespect for the law in the management of electoral registration".
Adalberto Costa Júnior reiterated that the process must be "with scrupulous respect for what the law says."
"My dear compatriots, this is an attack on what the law provides and must be corrected immediately," he said.
According to the politician, there is another law recently passed that allows the exchange of a voter's card for an identity card, and "if the illegality of assigning a citizen's card with a simple light bill is continued" it will create- if "a national security problem".
"Because we are going to give identity cards to non-national citizens and this is exactly what those who govern us cannot encourage", stressed Adalberto Costa Júnior, calling attention to overcoming "the enormous difficulties" that make people "often more one hour [waiting] to assign a citizen card".
"Someone who is required, in addition to the identity card, the voter card, is not being enough, it is demanding more the residence certificate or the light bill, this is also illegal", he pointed out.
According to the UNITA leader, these "are the instructions that are being given to those who are practicing registration behind a desk".
"Please, members of the Government, of the National Electoral Commission, respect the laws, let's start registering in an environment of credibility, of absolute transparency", he added, calling on all national citizens to register.
Angola holds general elections in 2022, and for that purpose it started throughout the country, on the 23rd, the unofficial electoral register, which ends on March 31 of next year.
The process, which will be in operation at the Public Service Desk (BUAP), is expected to register 12 million people across the country, of which 450 thousand are abroad, where the process should start in January until March.
