A group of UNITA MPs, including Abel Chivukuvuku, have asked for their mandate to be suspended on grounds of incompatibility, due to their membership of the PRA-JÁ Servir Angola party.
A total of seven MPs from the party, coordinated by Abel Chivukuvuku and which was recently legalised by the Constitutional Court, asked the parliament on Wednesday to suspend their mandate “for exercising a political nature incompatible with the mandate under the terms of the Constitution and the law”.
Speaking to Lusa, Xavier Jaime said that this request is aimed at obeying the dictates of the Law on Political Parties and the Constitution of the Republic.
“Militancy in two parties is strictly forbidden, that’s all there is to it, and now we’ll simply occupy ourselves with our work in the party,” said Xavier Jaime.
With the departure of this group of MPs, according to the law, those who come next on the list of MPs replace the vacancies.
After four years of unsuccessfully trying to legalise his political project, Abel Chivukuku and his members became part of the United Patriotic Front (FPU), a political platform that includes the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Adalberto Costa Júnior, the Democratic Bloc, led by Filomeno Vieira Lopes, and the then political project PRA-JÁ Servir Angola.
Through the FPU, the seven MPs who have now requested suspension were included in the list of MPs from UNITA’s parliamentary group.
In the 2022 general elections, Abel Chivukuvuku, a former activist and leader of Angola’s largest opposition party, who in 2012 created the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola – Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE), ran for vice-president of the country on the UNITA list, under the FPU.
Lusa