Agostinho de Neri, who was speaking at the opening of a methodological meeting aimed at the press, said that the National Assembly "is by nature a house of differences, where democracy is exercised, where respect for difference is essential."
"And then [one must] know how to respect and put on an equal footing all direct stakeholders in this House. It means that all elected deputies have equal rights before the media and there is no need for any of us to take it away party in the exercise of our activity, not to make value judgments in relation to the actions of the deputies", said the parliamentary responsible.
For Agostinho de Neri, the equal treatment of deputies at the level of the news media helps to avoid different readings in relation to deputies: "We have often been asked why we gave primacy to one over the other".
"We, unfortunately, cannot do this. This is a house that differs from others for this reason, it is that all deputies have a mandate given to them by the same source, all of them [deputies] are elected by the people," he noted. .
Angolan politicians and political formations, especially in the opposition, repeatedly complain of alleged partial treatment with regard to their information and activities at the level of public information bodies and others held by the state.
"The Legislative Process and Parliamentary Terminologies" were the theme of the "IIIth Methodological Meeting" addressed to journalists today, an initiative of the General Secretariat of the National Assembly.
According to Agostinho de Neri, the meeting aims to reinforce the "purposes, cooperation, mechanisms of action" to "better serve the population".
"Our and your mission must seek complicity in action and modus operandi," he said.
"This meeting arises to also share objectives and fundamentally align the way in which we must communicate both internally and externally by communicating our action to the people", he pointed out.
The need to standardize the language, terminology and parliamentary nomenclatures in the country's media, aiming at "understanding the legislative production" at the level of citizens in Angola was defended by the speaker at the meeting.
The legislative, representative and control and oversight functions of the Angolan parliament, the procedures for approving legal diplomas, bills or bills, are among the points presented to the journalistic class present at the meeting.
Parliamentary terminologies and nomenclatures, namely debates in the specialty, in general and of urgency, the difference between vote declarations and political declarations, parliamentary groups and mixed parliamentary groups, among others, were also addressed at the meeting.
The meeting also aimed to project the opening of the fifth legislative session of the fourth legislature of the parliament, which is scheduled to start on the 15th of this month with a speech on the State of the Nation, to be delivered by President João Lourenço.
