Abel Chivukuvu announced the decision at the end of a demonstration held this Saturday in Luanda, which gathered nearly 600 people, who walked about eight kilometers from the concentration point at the Santa Ana cemetery to Maianga, in the center of the city, wielding posters that said: "Legalization is PRA-JA"; "We are 32.061 subscribers and our rights are being violated"; "We demand the legalization of PRA-JA"; "The Court is of the people not of João Lourenço".
At stake is the decision of the Constitutional Court, which definitively rejected the legalization of PRA-JA Servir Angola, after successive failures, since 2019, when the process began.
According to Abel Chivukuvuku, coordinator of the PRA-JA Servir Angola Installation Commission, they will continue to litigate with the courts because they refuse to accept that the political project will not be legalized.
"PRA-JÁ exists and will continue to exist and will compete with other partners in 2022 (the year of general elections). Next week, our law firm will bring to court new documentation, based on Law 2/15 (Law that establishes the general principles and rules of the organization and functioning of the Courts of Common Jurisdiction), to take the Constitutional Court to victory," Abel Chivukuvuku told the demonstrators.
In declarations to Lusa, the lawyer, William Tonet, said that due to the challenge launched by Abel Chivukuvuku, he will now analyze the possibility and feasibility of filing appeals, to ask for the clarification of possible gray areas existing in the judgment.
"On the other hand, this was the first march, because we are going to continue, we are going to let the parties pass with serenity, but in January we are going to resume the seven/seven program (weekly verification visits to municipalities in Luanda province, implemented while [Chivukuvuku] was leader of Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola - Coigação Eleitoral (CASA-CE), the second largest force of the Angolan opposition," he said.
Abel Chivukuvuku said that the adherence of the demonstrators is proof that the rejected signatures and "that are hidden" in the Constitutional Court "will stay on the streets every day.
"We will do it carefully because of the pandemic, but we will demonstrate that the signatures are in the neighborhoods and are with us," he said, thanking the support of compatriots who came from the provinces, the young activists, some political forces, including the Democratic Bloc.
The politician promised new marches in January next year in the provinces, one of them in Malanje province to be led by him.
"After Malanje I will go to Benguela, Cabinda, Lunda Sul, and Zaire. It is to show the court that the signatures are on the street, they are with us. At the same time as we are going to resume 7/7 and walk with the people we are also going to prepare for 2022," he stressed.
The coordinator of the Installation Commission who reaffirmed his participation in the political life of the country, said that in 2022, in the next general elections, "the people have to checkmate the MPLA".
"We proved that, after all, the people when they manifest in repudiation to the entities of the country, do it with order and peacefully, nobody touched anyone, nobody vandalized anything and here we are all together", said Chivukuvuku, praising the behavior of the demonstrators, extensive to the role of the police, which guaranteed security throughout the march.
"I also want to give a word of thanks to the police, they behaved like citizens and have to be like that, protectors of the people and not violators of the rights of the people," he stressed.
To the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, to whom Abel Chivukuvuku attributes the responsibility of influencing the court's decision, he said he "will have to learn" that the people are sovereign and not him.
The Constitutional Court rejected the legalization of PRA-JA Servir Angola earlier this month, "for not making up for shortcomings" and presenting "ambiguous allegations," referring to its possible legalization within four years.
The decision of the plenary of judges of the Constitutional Court following the most recent appeal with allegations presented by the installation commission of the Partido do Renascimento Angola - Juntos por Angola - Servir Angola (PRA-JA Servir Angola), in which it challenged the order rejecting that instance, dated 27 August 2020.
According to Judgment No. 654/20 of 1 December 2020, the allegations about the rejection of an extraordinary appeal of unconstitutionality, filed in Judgment 632/20 contains "several inaccuracies".
The Plenary of that instance claims to have found that "in addition to non-compliance with the legally established deadline (15 days of the deadline and without any justification)," the PRA-JA added the required allegations "without the expected improvement, suffering the same from a certain clarity, objectivity and greater specification.
