At stake are the acts of aggression against Ludmila Pinto, wife of Angolan activist and journalist Cláudio Emanuel Pinto, from Rádio Despertar, linked to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
The request presented at the plenary session of the National Assembly was rejected with 112 votes against the parliamentary group of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 83 votes in favor of UNITA and two abstentions from the Social Renewal Party (PRS) and the Humanist Party .
The UNITA parliamentary group emphasizes in the document that Ludmila Pinto is the victim of persecution and three physical attacks, namely attacks, by unidentified individuals, with sharp objects, the last of which occurred last Monday, "in broad daylight, on public roads, within two months".
"Faced with these heinous facts, we want to know who is interested in the climate of terror and fear in Angola? Who is interested in intimidating and conditioning a journalist's family and class? Why do the competent State bodies not act, why does the SIC [Service of Criminal Investigation], the PGR [Attorney General's Office] and the State Information Services do not act", asks the UNITA parliamentary group in the application.
In the document, UNITA's parliamentary group demanded "from the President of the Republic, the National Assembly and the judiciary, an attitude of loyalty to citizens and aligned with the defense of the interests of people, families and companies and, above all, the defense of life and the safeguarding of fundamental human rights".
"The National Assembly's protest vote is opportune, urgent and necessary, as it constitutes a clear and unequivocal message to society that the State is united in the defense of social peace and that the National Assembly, as a representative body of all Angolans, which expresses the sovereign will of the people and exercises the legislative power of the State, is in solidarity with the executive's efforts to achieve democracy and justice, with the general feeling of society that justice, nor social peace, cannot be achieved by resorting to gratuitous violence or the subversion of democracy and the rule of law", expresses the UNITA parliamentary group.
According to the parliamentary group of the second largest political party in Angola, the National Assembly must "condemn all criminal acts that aim to provoke a state of terror in the general public and in people or individuals with unconfessed purposes, in any circumstances, regardless of considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be evoked".
