The legal diploma, at the initiative of the holder of the Executive Power and President, João Lourenço, was widely approved by the Angolan Parliament Specialty Commissions with 39 votes in favor, two abstentions and no vote against.
The law goes to the discussion and vote generally at next week's plenary meeting, after Parliament scheduled its appreciation urgently.
"We are pleased, because we feel that at the first joint meeting of the fifth legislature, all deputies, regardless of the political party, voted in favor of receiving, the appointment urgently in the National Assembly the AMNYSTIS 'Law," said the MPLA MP in POWER, LURDES KAPOSSO.
According to the deputy of the Popular Liberation Movement of Angola (MPLA), all deputies unanimously announced "the reception of the law in Parliament to be discussed in the next plenary of November 24.
"What we did today was the reception of the same (law) and, at this moment, the law is from the National Assembly, now until the 24th what we are going to do is debate in general," he said.
The Amnesty Bill, appreciated under the Council of Ministers on the 8th of this month, also deserved the consent of the National Front Deputy for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA, Opposition), Nimi-A-SIMBI. "Amnistizing people, especially to convert people, is good, we support here and now we will see in the specialty to see what the impact of this decision will be," said the "Brothers" party deputy.
For the deputy of the National Union for the total independence of Angola (UNITA), Manuel da Fonseca, with the law the president proposes to "amnesty crimes and at the same time grant forgiveness to penalties". "Not only in the cases already convicted, but also in cases where the lawsuits are pending in the courts, while deputy I will be able to give my best to participate in the debate in the specialty so that the law can be improved "He assured.
The government approved, on November 8, the proposal of amnesty law, for common or military crimes with prison sentences up to 10 years, committed by nationals or foreigners in the last seven years, except for embezzlement and laundering of capital.
The document, now already in Parliament for discussion and approval, was approved at the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers, guided by the President of Angola.
At the end of the meeting, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcy Lopes, told the press that the bill covers the crimes committed between November 12, 2015 and November 11, 2022.
Marcy Lopes indicated that the proposal presented by the executive holder aims to enforce all common crimes with prison up to 10 years, committed by national or foreign citizens, with some exceptions in the typologies of crime, including embezzlement and laundering of capital.
"As is well known, in 2015, the last law of amnesty was approved. This is why the temporal scope of this proposal of law, which now submits to the National Assembly, has this temporal spectrum," said the minister.
The holder of the Folder of Justice and Human Rights stressed that the legal diploma also proposes to be amnesty for military crimes punishable by prison up to 10 years, except for intentional crimes, committed with violence and which has resulted in death.
"There is also a generic forgiveness to the agents of crimes that have not been covered by amnesty and this forgiveness goes in the order of a quarter of the penalty that was applied to these citizens," he said.
According to Marcy Lopes, the willful crimes committed with violence or threat to people are not covered in the proposal, which resulted in death or when there was a more accurate firearm use the violent crimes.
Crimes of drug trafficking and psychotropic substances, which are not of less seriousness, that is, "all crimes that understand drug trafficking and have a greater scope will not be amnesty," the minister explained.
The ruler stressed that the crimes of trafficking in persons or sex trafficking of persons, arms trafficking and war ammunition, sexual crimes with penetration, sexual crimes against minors or those who have been committed by means of sexual aggression and crimes of promotion and assistance to illegal immigration.
The list of excluded crimes also includes those of embezzlement, money laundering, environmental, those resulting in vandalization, destruction or deprivation of public goods.
