The position is expressed in the statement issued this Tuesday by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), on 17 September, the Day of the National Hero and Founder of the Nation, António Agostinho Neto, the first President of the Republic of Angola.
"The MPLA believes that maintaining a deep, permanent, open and inclusive dialogue is a fundamental condition for the country to achieve, as quickly as possible, the objectives set by the executive and the leader, comrade João Lourenço, and calls for the union of efforts around the best solutions for the future of Angola", states the document to which Lusa had access.
On the occasion of this anniversary, which marks the 102nd anniversary of the birth of former President António Agostinho Neto, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the MPLA reaffirms its permanent commitment to, "in the name of the glorious political nation of the MPLA, continue to exalt the life and work of the comrade".
On this day, the party that has been in power in Angola since 1975, the year in which the country gained its independence, "calls on all the Angolan people to celebrate this date with renewed hope, aiming for the necessary changes in the country's current socioeconomic situation, and aspiring to the realization of the noble ideals that guided the political party's struggle, based on the legacy that "the most important thing is to solve the people's problems", a maxim of Agostinho Neto.
"With this objective, the Political Bureau of the MPLA advocates the strengthening of the nation's productive capacity, aligned with the aims of economic diversification, as a way of ensuring the sustainable construction of an economy that promotes the development that Angola so yearns for and for which it works with tireless dedication", reads the statement.
