The announcement was made by Manuel Lopes Dembo, first secretary of the National Assembly, after the meeting of the standing committee.
The proposal from the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) to remove the President of the Republic was submitted to the National Assembly on Thursday.
The initiative, which was publicly announced in July this year, is based on a serious violation of the Constitution of the Republic, by attacking the Democratic Rule of Law, through the subversion of budget execution rules, the market economy and the republican system. , as well as for the practice of corruption, embezzlement, influence peddling and repeated practice of nepotism.
The document, with around 100 pages and more than 200 articles, was signed by 90 UNITA deputies, identifying more than 200 documentary pieces of evidence and naming 40 citizens as witnesses.
In a press conference that preceded the delivery of the proposal, the leader of the UNITA parliamentary group, Liberty Chiaka, stated that it was "a very important day for the development of Angolan democracy".
Liberty Chiaka said that, after delivering the document, the National Assembly "stops everything to resolve the matter", establishing the law that the Plenary of the National Assembly meets urgently, to organize the process.
In the extraordinary plenary, the report is discussed and the plenary approves a resolution on the matter by secret vote, by a majority of two thirds of the deputies in full office, after which the procedural petition must be sent to the Supreme Court, for possible criminal proceedings, and the Constitutional Court to verify the compliance of the process deliberated by the National Assembly.
The conclusion of the process of dismissal of the President of the Republic has absolute priority over any other matter of the National Assembly and must end within a maximum period of 120 days from the date of receipt of this initiative, said Chiaka.
The extraordinary plenary session precedes the opening of the parliamentary year, scheduled for Monday and which will feature President João Lourenço's message on the State of the Nation as its highlight.
