The president of the Social Renewal Party (PRS), Benedito Daniel, told Lusa this Wednesday that concern about the payment of list delegates, who worked in the August 24 elections, is widespread, so the parties made a joint request to the President.
"It was a joint complaint with all the parties that feel this need, the need is more or less the same, we need about 600 million kwanzas each for this payment", said the PRS leader.
For the August 24 elections, each party received 1,112 million, almost three times the amount paid in 2017.
For the president of social renovators, subsidies for list delegates "should be provided by the National Electoral Commission (PRS), but unfortunately this amount was not made available", contrary to what happened in 2017.
In this sense, the total subsidy is "insufficient has not arrived for the payment of the list delegates", he assumed.
In the case of the PRS, "we have made some efforts within the possibilities we have to try to respond to this dehydrated condition, despite the fact that we have already lodged a complaint with the head of state to see if this situation can really be seen".
Delegates on the list of various political forces, who competed in the fifth general elections, are demanding the payment of their subsidies and even these have already held demonstrations at the headquarters of the respective parties.
The national headquarters of the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), in Luanda, was vandalized by some delegates demanding payment of their subsidies and a similar situation was recorded at the premises of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), in Luanda and in the interior of the country.
This Wednesday, to Lusa, the president of the FNLA, Nimi a Simbi, confirmed that his party is still missing the respective list delegates and that he is waiting for a response to the joint request made to the President, João Lourenço.
According to the leader of the "brothers", his party needs about 600 million kwanzas to settle the debt. "There is no other way, if he (President of the Republic) makes the money available, we will pay, because we need to serve the list delegates from all over the country, because our structures in the interior of the country and here in Luanda are breaking", he lamented.
Nimi a Simbi recalled that most of the delegates on his party's list held demonstrations in the interior of the country, and in Uíge their structures were also vandalized and, in Namibe, his representative was the victim of an attack.
"Almost in all provinces they are reacting negatively, the situation is very worrying, the case is not for less, the State really has to put its hand because we don't have that money to pay them, it's the costs of democracy and they really have to pay", shot the president of the FNLA.
And CASA-CE, which saw its headquarters in Luanda vandalized, is also missing the delegates on the list and is waiting for a response to the joint letter sent last week from the President.
A source from the coalition's presidential college told Lusa that the party force "is in reflection, waiting for the Constitutional Court's position" and, at the same time, for João Lourenço's response on funding for list delegates.
Last week, CNE president Manuel Pereira da Silva released the final tabulation minutes of the August 24 general elections, which proclaimed the MPLA and its candidate, João Lourenço, as winners with 51.17 percent of the votes, followed by UNITA with 43.95 percent.
With these results, the MPLA elected 124 deputies and UNITA 90 deputies, almost double the 2017 elections.
The FNLA, the PRS and the new Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) each elected two deputies.
CASA-CE, the National Patriotic Alliance (APN) and P-Njango did not obtain seats in the National Assembly, which in the 2022-2027 legislature will have 220 deputies.
UNITA, together with the Democratic Bloc (BD) and CASA-CE, filed a contentious electoral appeal with the Constitutional Court pointing out alleged "irregularities in the process", and the appeal is being processed in that instance.
