This is one of the positions of the youth organization, which is asking that by November the municipal legislative package be completed, whose first elections were scheduled for this year, but have been postponed due to lack of conditions.
The civic organization also asks for a review of the nomination, which did not meet with consensus, of the president of the National Electoral Commission (CNE), Manuel da Silva "Manico," promising to resort to a wave of protests in front of the National Assembly.
For the Youth Movement for the Municipalities, the months of December and January should be used by the executive to create the town card and other material and immaterial conditions for the first local elections to be held.
The young people also want the State General Budget for 2021 to create a line dedicated to municipal elections, which if it does not happen "will be an indirect way to postpone the municipalities once again," they say.
For opposition parties with a parliamentary seat, the organization suggests that they abandon discussion of any issue other than the municipal legislative package.
"Because if they continue to play the sad role they have already accustomed us to, they will be considered traitors to the homeland," the document read this Tuesday in a press conference says.
With these "fracturing questions" resolved, the Youth Movement for Local Authorities considers that the conditions have been created for the President of the Republic to call local elections no later than July 2021.
"The Youth Movement for Local Authorities calls for the respect of the popular will and the prioritization of the country's needs, under penalty of taking severe measures proportional to the negligence and lack of commitment to the nation on the part of those who have always governed, with the aim of forcing the institutionalization of the local authorities. The will of the people is a law. And the law must prevail," is emphasized in the text.
Last September, the postponement of the first local elections in Angola was announced, after the Council of the Republic had met, justifying that there were no conditions for this, including the failure to conclude the local government legislative package and the holding of the unofficial electoral register.
According to the Minister of Territorial Administration and State Reform, Marcy Lopes, the process of preparing for the elections includes a wide range of acts, which should be harmonized.
The President, João Lourenço, said that although there was a consensus on the need to establish local government, there were no conditions for it to be carried out, emphasizing that "it is not possible in a democratic state under the rule of law to hold any elections without legal support".
"We recognize all the effort made by the National Assembly in approving part of the municipal legislative package, but without necessarily pointing blame, we are convinced that not everything is done, the work is not yet finished," he said.
