The position is expressed in the final communiqué of the III Ordinary Meeting of the Political Commission of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which took place on Friday and Saturday in Luanda, in which party leaders addressed the political situation in the country, the diplomatic plan and internal party life.
The sixth local elections in Mozambique are being the target of harsh criticism from different opposition parties and civil society, who denounce a "mega fraud" in the ballot, with emphasis on the falsification of notices, with some decisions by district courts recognizing irregularities in the process.
The main opposition party (Renamo) has been promoting marches to challenge the results of the October 11 elections, bringing together thousands of people in different parts of the country to demand the "restitution of electoral truth".
UNITA also denounced a "wave of persecution and arbitrary arrests" of activists to discourage their participation in political life and demanded the immediate release "of all political prisoners in Luanda and other regions of the country".
The national party also expressed concern "about the daily worsening of hunger and misery of the Angolan population" and considered that the measures taken by João Lourenço's executive are "palliative, random, electoral, unsustainable and unpatriotic".
UNITA also decided to "mobilize national and international public opinion" to press for the institutionalization of local authorities in Angola in 2024.
"Denounce the serious regression of the Democratic Rule of Law in Angola embodied in censorship, the exclusion of political actors in the opposition in state media bodies, the interference of the courts in the internal life of political parties and the persistent interference of the executive power in the bodies of legislative and judicial powers", also appears in the document released today.
Internally, UNITA encouraged the party leadership to deepen and broaden interaction with social partners within the scope of the broad United Patriotic Front "as a sure guarantee for the implementation of the alternation of political power in Angola, in the next electoral election".
