In a statement to which Lusa had access, the president of the parliamentary group of the Wide Convergence of Salvation of Angola - Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), Alexandre Sebastião André, requested a debate “with an urgent character”, “under the theme 'the exercise of citizenship rights versus oppression and the repression of demonstrations ”.
"The referred proposal arises from the urgent need for a parliamentary debate on the current situation, as well as the necessary involvement of the National Assembly in search of ways to solve the problems", the proposal says.
Last Friday, the same coalition had condemned the police's "gratuitous violence" against "defenseless citizens", in a demonstration on Wednesday in Luanda, which resulted in the death of a demonstrator.
CASA-CE vice-president for Communication and Marketing, Cesinanda Xavier, defended that her coalition and Angolans need an explanation of the death of the young demonstrator, defending an "investigation to punish those responsible".
"We all want to know the reason for the death of this citizen. A death is always a death, and one should not engage in gratuitous violence, because the citizens were defenseless and the police are armed," he said, then, in an interview with Lusa .
For Cesinanda Xavier, "there is no need to use extreme force to the point of taking a life and especially a young life".
Police and activists disagree on the causes of the young man's death, a 26-year-old university student, with protesters claiming he was shot in the head, dying immediately, while police forces deny using bullets and a hospital official said the man he was admitted to the hospital while still alive, with signs of having suffered a head injury from a "blunt object", but he would die after a surgical intervention.
Cesinanda Xavier, also vice-president of the CASA-CE parliamentary group, also said that all these demonstrations and the entire condition of social, economic and political degradation in the country "must lack an immediate resolution by the Angolan executive".
"We start from the principle that demonstrations are a right of citizens and in the face of social degradation wherever they find themselves, it is natural that people want to express themselves as pressure for the executive to improve the living conditions of citizens, especially young people" , concluded the Angolan deputy.
The demonstration, promoted by the same organizers who had already seen a suppressed protest by the police last month, intended to demand better living conditions and the holding of the first municipal elections in 2021, after having been postponed this year due to the covid-19.
