The deputies of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) consider that the violation of the rules of the National Assembly and the Constitution is at stake in cases related to the dissolution of the mixed parliamentary group constituted by the Social Renewal Party (PRS) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and in the composition of the CNE.
The cases were the subject of two requests presented by the leader of the parliamentary group, Liberty Chiaka, both rejected by the parliamentary majority of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
This Thursday, at the extraordinary plenary meeting, several points will be discussed and voted on, including laws relating to the regime applicable to price regulation, the legal regime that defines electromobility and the controversial draft resolution that approves the adjustment of the composition of the CNE that the UNITA contests.
Last week, the National Assembly approved this draft resolution approving the designation of the number of representatives of political parties with parliamentary seats in the CNE, but without the largest opposition party that abandoned the vote because it did not agree with the distribution of the proposed commissioners for the CNE.
This Tuesday, UNITA called a press conference to clarify the reasons, accusing the MPLA of "political hoax" and demanding that the Hondt method be applied in the distribution of electoral commissioners' mandates.
This Thursday morning, UNITA presented two requests: one regarding the dismissal of the dissolution of the PRS/FNLA mixed parliamentary group for violating the rules of the National Assembly; another relating to the composition of the CNE, which according to UNITA must have eight members from the MPLA, five from UNITA and one from each of the other parties, following Hondt's method, asking that the composition of nine commissioners for the MPLA be rejected which "does not is in accordance with the law".
Both requests were rejected by the MPLA parliamentary majority, with 184 votes against, hearing loud protests from the UNITA bench, whose deputies left the plenary wing shortly afterwards.
