Xavier Jaime spoke to Lusa about the situation in which members of PRA-JA Servir Angola, Abel Chivukuvuku's political party legalized last week, now find themselves, and who were elected deputies on the list of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in the 2022 general election.
"The Political Parties Law will be complied with", said Xavier Jaime, stressing that this legal diploma in one of its articles provides for the treatment of dual membership.
In the 2022 general elections, UNITA presented itself as a member of the United Patriotic Front (FPU), a political platform coordinated by Adalberto Costa Júnior, assisted by Abel Chivukuvuku and Filomeno Vieira Lopes, from PRA-JA Servir Angola and the Democratic Bloc, respectively, as well as members of civil society.
"So we will look into this carefully, carefully and we will see. We will take an appropriate decision in due course," he stressed.
Regarding Abel Chivukuvuku's absence from the ceremony to begin the new parliamentary year, in which the president, João Lourenço, spoke about the State of the Nation, Xavier Jaime pointed out "reasons linked to health".
The fourth vice-president of the National Assembly highlighted the fact that the president's speech this year on the State of the Nation was "better structured than previous ones".
"It was better organized, better systematized. In terms of subjects, it doesn't deviate much from what was expected", said the politician, emphasizing that João Lourenço "gave priority above all to aspects related to health and education".
"I also couldn't invent it, I said what he did, what he is doing", he added.
Asked to comment on the protest carried out by the UNITA parliamentary group during the speech, he considered it "normal" that the President "did not appreciate it positively".
"But also the people who acted like this, being deputies, considered that they had the right to carry out this protest and in that way, it's all a matter of conscience, it's a protest that I think people made consciously", he declared.
