In a press conference, UNITA's parliamentary group presented its vision on the 2021 GSB approved on Monday by the National Assembly, with favorable votes from the MPLA and the FNLA parliamentary representation.
According to UNITA parliamentary group leader Liberty Chiaka, the leaders are not committed to "serving the citizens well", whose governance should be based on the strict framework of the budget approved by the parliament.
"From what has been described above, it is clear that this has not been how the leaders of this country have viewed the budgets and national development plans that they themselves have drawn up," he said.
Liberty Chiaka noted that there are still "many shortcomings, omissions, various inaccuracies, some abuses of power, administrative irresponsibilities and improbabilities, excessive administrative centralization and concentration of power and several other anomalies and weaknesses in public management, far from the universally accepted requirements as good governance.
For the UNITA parliamentary group, any budget that is valued must be drafted with clarity, objectivity, accuracy and in obedience to universal principles and the law.
Budgets, he continued, must be executed with "smoothness, total transparency, a spirit of mission and good service, in order to effectively and efficiently achieve their economic and social purposes.
"Unfortunately this is not yet what we have in Angola," said Liberty Chiaka, stressing that in the face of this scenario of "political incompetence, governance and weak technical capacity, reflected in the various irregularities and shortcomings already mentioned," UNITA "with leaders, activists and friends, serious and patriotic, anxious for better governance policies and programs" of the country, could not vote for this budget.
According to the leader of UNITA's parliamentary group, these budgets "solve little or almost nothing of the real problems of the people and, even worse, in many cases, exacerbate the hunger and poverty of most Angolan families and businessmen.
"Out of patriotic conscience, out of loyalty to the humanist principles that it has always advocated, since its creation in 1966 and in line with the fundamental principles that underpin a democratic state based on the rule of law, for which it has courageously fought to make it a reality in Angola," UNITA deputies "cannot and should not agree to these economic programs and budgets," it stressed.
Programs and budgets "badly designed and worse executed, which have contributed very little or nothing to create or add value and to bring well-being to the majority of Angolan citizens," he said.
The GSB 2021 has fixed revenues and projected expenditures of 14.7 billion kwanzas, a document prepared with a reference price of $39 per barrel of oil, which indicates an increase of 9.9 percent compared to the revised budget in force.
