Carolina Cerqueira, who was speaking this Monday at the opening plenary session of the new legislative year 2023-2024, of the V legislature, envisaged a complex legislative year, marked by an international situation that negatively affects the economic and social stability of States.
"We encourage your excellency, Mr President of the Republic, as holder and head of the executive branch, to continue with the agenda of social support for families, to mitigate the problems that the population still faces in their daily lives", said Carolina Cerqueira.
The description of the state of the nation made by the President in the National Assembly, a legal imperative, recalled the president of this body, "is one of the highest moments in the consolidation" of the democratic rule of law and a sublime opportunity to identify lines of forces capable of contribute to solving the main problems of Angolans and achieving national development objectives.
Carolina Cerqueira also mentioned that, like other African states, Angola is witnessing the galloping growth of its population, "so the challenge for development is for everyone and in favor of everyone".
"Never like before, Angola has had such an overwhelming challenge. Never like today, the State bodies and the nation in general have had a challenge of such magnitude", said Carolina Cerqueira.
According to the president of the National Assembly, "no matter what we do", the galloping growth of the population "always makes access to goods difficult in view of the growing needs of the population".
The president of parliament stressed that there is awareness that the legislative power "in this challenging task of sustainable development" is also an essential pillar upon which falls a set of responsibilities to help create a promising economic environment capable of improving the quality of life for all the Angolans.
The mission of keeping the house of laws increasingly open to scrutiny and public, political and plural debate, based on tolerance and respect for divergence of opinions, always having as its center and apex the collective interests of the sovereign Angolan people remains in "firm mission" of the National Assembly, highlighted Carolina Cerqueira.
"It is our desire that for the current legislative year we continue to work to make this House of Laws a mirror of our country's political diversity and democracy, as relevant assumptions for national unity and cohesion and social inclusion, sacred values that we must cultivate as common collective heritage for an Angola of the future", she highlighted.
Carolina Cerqueira called for respect for institutions, highlighting that "whoever promotes conflict and whoever disrespects institutions will bear the burden of this historical error and will be responsible for breaking social peace and political peace and the most basic democratic duties", which were hard won.
"We must continue to guarantee institutional peace and parliamentary dialogue as a weapon for building a more demanding and more mature democracy. Our institutional duty does not allow us to create spaces for fractures of the democratic rule of law", she said.
