Close to the executive’s one thousand and one hundred days of work after the last elections, Angolans’ expectations regarding campaign promises remain high.
Contrary to what happened in the past years, this time a large majority decided to pay attention to the execution of government programs. The flagship of this program was the publicly assumed commitment to fight corruption.
Voters made a bet to see if that would happen or not. With more than half of the mandate fulfilled, the government remains in the voters’ sights, in whose opinion there are steps inside the house that have not yet been taken.
The incentives coming from both the President of the Republic and the Attorney General’s Office, so that there is greater collaboration on the part of citizens, has been accepted in a somewhat timid manner. The fears lie in reprisals that they may suffer because of the little confidence they place in the reporting institutions.
The administrative and government sectors are, in the opinion of most Angolans, places where acts of corruption are most practiced.
65% are sure that members of provincial governments are involved in corruption cases, while 10% believe that they are not involved. 25% preferred not to answer or said they did not have any knowledge regarding the subject. Regarding the members of the municipal administrations, 66% are sure of them, 11% do not believe and 23% refused to talk about the subject.
Looking at the Presidency and the Central Government, 51% of Angolans are sure that there are people involved in cases of corruption in those sectors. The percentage of those who do not believe there is 22% and that of those who do not know or have not answered is 27%.
There are other places also identified with people involved in cases of corruption.
The National Assembly is one of those places. Here, 60% of Angolans believe that deputies are involved in corruption cases, 13% say they do not believe in this existence and 28% say they have not yet formed an opinion.
In relation to the courts – Judges and Prosecutors – the numbers do not differ much from that of the sectors mentioned above. 60% believe there are acts of corruption with the majority of employees involved, 13% say there are no Judges or Prosecutors involved, while 27% say they either have no knowledge or refused to answer.
The National Police tops the list with 69% of people saying with certainty that there are people involved in corruption cases. The number of those who do not believe corresponds to 10%. 21% say they have no knowledge or have not yet formed an opinion on the subject.
The data presented here are the result of a survey conducted in the months of November and December last year, and which were released by Ovilongwa, in July 2020. 2,400 Angolans were heard across the country. “A sample of this size produces national results with a margin of error of 2 percentage points, up and down, and a 95% confidence level”, says the press release.
