Abel Chivukuvuku, who was speaking at a press conference to raise awareness of the state of play of the legalization process of PRA-JA Servir Angola, his new political project, guaranteed this Wednesday that with or without a party, he will continue to participate in life national politics, remembering that to run for municipal elections you only need to have 500 subscribers.
The first municipal elections in the country were scheduled for this year, but they did not happen, according to the Government, due to the lack of conditions, including the non-conclusion of the municipal legislative package and the pandemic of the covid-19.
According to Abel Chivukuvuku, in 2018 and 2019, when the first municipal elections were being held, at the time still president of the Wide Convergence of Salvation of Angola - Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), he proposed to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA), National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and Social Renewal Party (PRS), opposition parties with parliamentary seats, who participate as a single force.
"And we had already agreed that in the local elections we should not, within the opposition, compete between each other, so that there would be only two blocs, the ruling party bloc and the opposition bloc and civil society," he said.
"We would play with the phenomenon of comparative advantages. Where we perceived that a particular party had more advantages, we all supported only that party to reduce the hegemony, unfortunately, we did not have municipal elections and the country's national political landscape changed," he added.
The politician argued that it is necessary to be able to always leave "the doors open for innovation, for new things and through the combination of ideals, principles and values that can support any type of project".
For Abel Chivukuvuku, the responsibility of not holding municipal elections this year, a constitutional imperative, is exclusive to the MPLA, party in power, recalling that at the initiative of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, the Council of the Republic analyzed a time horizon for the municipal elections and agreed that they should take place in 2020.
"We had a profound difference between the ruling party and all the opposition parties, civil society and churches with regard to the gradualism in the implementation of the autarchies", he said, stressing that the territorial gradualism defended by the MPLA and the simultaneous realization elections divided the parties.
"My understanding is that the MPLA realized that with the realization of the municipalities in 2020 it would objectively lose the hegemony that it has in the exercise of national political power", he underlined.
According to the politician, "all that has happened is fear, the idea that the National Assembly has not concluded the legislative package is the responsibility of the MPLA, because the National Assembly table is chaired by someone from the MPLA, the parliamentary majority is from the MPLA, if they don’t want to institutionalize it’s because they’re afraid of local elections, that’s it. "
