After a peaceful march through Luanda this Saturday, Abel Chivukuvuku announced that he will continue to fight in court to legalize his political project PRA-JA Servir Angola and promised to return to the streets of Angola in January.
Angolan politician Abel Chivukuvuku announced, this Saturday (19.12), that he will continue to fight to legalize PRA-JA Servir Angola, his political project, whose legalization process was made unfeasible by the Constitutional Court, which triggered more protests.
Abel Chivukukuvu announced the decision at the end of a demonstration in Luanda, which brought together nearly 600 people, who walked about eight kilometers, from the concentration point, in the Santa Ana cemetery, to Maianga, in the city center.
The protesters were holding placards with the words: “Legalization is PRA-JA”, “We are 32,061 subscribers and our rights are being violated”, “We demand the legalization of PRA-JA”, “The Court belongs to the people, it is not João Lourenço ”.
At issue is the decision of the Constitutional Court that definitively rejected the legalization of PRA-JA Servir Angola – after successive leads, since 2019, when the process started.
According to Abel Chivukuvuku, coordinator of the Installing Committee of PRA-JA Servir Angola, they will continue to litigate with the courts, because they refuse to accept that the political project is not legalized.
“PRA-JÁ exists and will continue to exist and will compete with other opponents in 2022 [year of general elections]. Next week, our law firm will bring new documentation to the court, based on Law 2/15 [Law that establishes the general principles and rules for the organization and functioning of the Courts of Common Jurisdiction], in order to defeat the Constitutional Court. ”, Abel Chivukuvuku told the protesters.
Continue with marching
Speaking to Lusa, lawyer William Tonet said that, due to the challenge launched by Abel Chivukuvuku, the possibility and feasibility of bringing appeals will now be analyzed, in order to ask for clarification of any gray areas existing in the judgment.
“On the other hand, this was the first march, because we are going to continue. We will let the parties pass with serenity, but in January we will resume the program seven / seven [weekly visits to the provinces of Luanda province], implemented while [Chivukuvuku] was the leader of the Wide Convergence of Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA -CE), the second-largest force of the Angolan opposition ”, he said.
Abel Chivukuvuku said that the demonstrators’ adherence is proof that the rejected and “hidden” signatures in the Constitutional Court “will be on the street 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, from the young activists, from some political forces, namely the Bloc Democratic.
The politician promised new marches in January next year in the provinces, one of them in the province of Malanje 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 that we are going to resume 7/7 and walk with the people, we are also going to prepare for 2022 ”, he stressed.
Peaceful Protesting
The coordinator of the Installing Committee, who reaffirmed his participation in the country’s political life, said that in 2022, in the next general elections, “the people have to checkmate the MPLA [Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola]”.
“We proved that, after all, the people, when they protest in opposition to the country’s entities, do so in an orderly and peaceful manner, nobody touched anyone, nobody vandalized anything and here we are all together,” said Chivukuvuku, praising the demonstrators’ extensive behavior. to the role of the Police, which guaranteed security throughout the march.
“I also want to say a word of thanks to the police, they behaved like citizens and must be like that, protectors of the people and not violators of the people’s rights”, he stressed.
To the President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço, to whom Abel Chivukuvuku attributes responsibility for influencing the court’s decision, said that he “will have to learn” that the people are sovereign and not him.
