Luanda – The MPs of the PRA-JA ServirAngola political force, who were elected in the ambit of an agreement with the main opposition party, UNITA, thus integrating the latter’s parliamentary bench, could give up their seats in the National Assembly in view of the recent legalisation of PRA-JA, as a political party, by the Angolan Constitutional Court.
The information was given on Friday, at a press conference, by the co-ordinator of the PRA-JA ServirAngola project, Abel Chivukuvuku, who clarified that one cannot be part of the list of MPs of one party and at the same time a political leader of another one, which is illegal.
He went on to explain that the PRA-JA members that choose to continue in the National Assembly (as UNITA MPs), after the holding of the project’s first ordinary congress, scheduled for the first quarter of 2025, will have to be left out of the new party’s directive organs.
“Whoever wants to remain there, can remain; it is legitimate and a right. They just can´t hold posts in PRA-JÁ”, Abel Chivukuvuku guaranteed, further announcing that he himself will suspend his parliamentary mandate.
In the 2022 elections, as part of an agreememnt with the main opposition party, the PRA-JA ServirAngola project managed to get 15 parliamentary seats, two of those MPs have decided to join the UNITA ranks.
Abel Chivukuvuku also assured that his Project continues to be part of the United Patriotic Front (FPU) co-ordinated by the president of UNITA, Adalberto Costa Júnior.
According to the seasoned politician, in 2027 PRA-JA ServirAngola intends to form government or be part of the Executive.
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