On Saturday, UNITA condemned what it called “serious interference by FRELIMO in the local election process in Mozambique” and called on the African Union and other international organizations to impose sanctions against the Maputo government.
The position was expressed in the final communiqué of the third regular meeting of the Political Commission of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), held on Friday and Saturday in Luanda, at which the party leaders reviewed the political situation in the country, the diplomatic plan and internal party life.
Mozambique’s sixth local elections are coming under heavy criticism from various opposition parties and civil society, who are decrying “mega-rigging” of ballot papers, emphasizing fraudulent notifications, and some district court decisions admitting irregularities in the ballot papers. process.
The main opposition party (Renamo) is holding marches to challenge the results of the October 11 elections, uniting thousands of people in different parts of the country to demand the “restoration of electoral truth.”
UNITA also condemned the “wave of persecution and arbitrary arrests” of activists aimed at preventing their participation in political life and demanded the immediate release of “all political prisoners in Luanda and other regions of the country.”
The Angolan Party also expressed concern about the “daily increase in hunger and suffering among the Angolan population” and considered that the measures taken by leader João Lourenço (President of Angola and the MPLA, the ruling party) were “palliative, ad hoc.” , electoral, unstable and unpatriotic.”
UNITA also decided to “mobilize national and international public opinion” to push for the institutionalization of local government in Angola in 2024.
“Condemn the serious regression of the democratic rule of law in Angola, embodied in censorship, the exclusion of opposition political figures from state media outlets, judicial interference in the internal life of political parties and constant interference by the executive branch. in the legislative and judicial authorities,” also appears in the document released today.
Domestically, UNITA called on the party leadership to deepen and expand interaction with social partners within the framework of the broad United Patriotic Front “as a reliable guarantee for the implementation of a change of political power in Angola in the next electoral elections.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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