Speaking to Lusa, the president of the national jurisdiction council of P-Njango, Rufino Samanjata, said that the Law on Political Parties is clear, and those that do not reach 0.5 percent of valid votes should be extinct.
“The law is very clear, there are several ways to extinguish a political party and one of them is not reaching the 0.5 percent figure. We are aware of this and we are just waiting for the Constitutional Court's pronouncement,” he said.
Rufino Samanjata stressed that the party, legalized this year and led by Eduardo “Dinho” Chingungi, is “in a not so good situation”, but seeks to overcome the situation.
“Since the legalization of the party, we have always survived on members' contributions. Not reaching the intended objective, which was the reach of parliament to have a state subsidy”, the party will continue to survive on the contributions of its members, said Rufino Samanjata.
“We thought we would continue to work, but it is difficult to work only with donations from the members. We can even work, but the effects are not that visible, because the media do not allow the message to be spread sufficiently,” he stressed.
The P-Njango leader informed that a meeting is scheduled for October 23 with the aim of defining the party's position and drawing up its lines for the next challenges.
The National Patriotic Alliance (APN) is another of the parties that failed to achieve the minimum results required by law and will now turn its attention to municipal elections, a leader of the organization told Lusa.
According to the secretary for Electoral and Parliamentary Affairs of the APN, Tiago Miguel, the party is reflecting on internal political life, which will lead to an extraordinary meeting of the central committee, after hearing the political bureau.
Tiago Miguel stressed that the party is collecting opinions from provincial, municipal, district and communal secretaries, as well as from friends and supporters of the APN, on its performance and what it failed in the 24 August elections, as well as what it needs be improved, for the party leadership to “draw a policy” of participation in the next suffrage.
“We are going to monitor domestic and foreign policy in detail, but we are still working on internal programmes”, said the politician, highlighting the recent creation by the Angolan President, João Lourenço, of a commission for local elections.
The head of state created this week an Interministerial Commission for the Elaboration and Implementation of the Integrated Plan for the Institutionalization of Local Authorities, following the process of administrative deconcentration and decentralization, coordinated by the Minister of State and head of the Civil House of the President of the Republic, Adão. de Almeida.
According to Tiago Miguel, the municipalities are of interest not only to political forces and civil society, but to all Angolans, a framework that could accelerate the internal process of organizing the party.
“We will have to speed up this process of internal consultation of the party, because the President of the Republic has given a signal, a green light, regarding the possibility of holding local elections in less than two years”, he said.
Tiago Miguel stressed that the party “will very quickly create the guidelines to have a firm position” on how its participation in the first municipal elections will be.
The APN secretary said that the party will analyze whether it will run for municipalities in alliance with members of civil society or with existing political forces.
“In the case of parties that may be legalized or legalized parties, with parties with a parliamentary seat or even with the party that is governing the country. All these possibilities will be studied, made viable, in the possibility of achieving a better result than in the past general elections”, he stressed.
“In other words, we continued in these two elections, in which the APN ran, without having a parliamentary seat. So the municipalities are an opportunity for us to do better, to make history”, he highlighted.
The party, led by Quintino Moreira, aims to have, mentioned Tiago Miguel, a minimum of 30 percent of the total number of mayors to be elected, “a substantial number to give a breath to our existence as an extra-parliamentary political party, without any parliamentary seat and without any financial endowment from the State”.
The Constitutional Court has not yet ruled on the dissolution of the parties.
