Lubango - UNITA's parliamentary whip, Liberty Chiyaka, considered Wednesday in Lubango City, Huila Province, that "the country will need a national stability pact (…)” to give continuity to the State, should UNITA win the August 24 general elections.
The politician, who was speaking during a press conference on the electoral roll and the stability pact, said the agreement is an idea that reserves political and legal guarantees securing order, and provides economic, financial or patrimonial security.
The politician affirmed that people are afraid of losing their privileges and assets, which is why his party has proposed the project to be approved as law, explaining how the transition from one government to another can be made.
Chiyaka emphasized that the objective is to turn it into a finished document with everyone's collaboration to be implemented, in case they win the elections, with the idea of governing with everyone's inclusion and participation.
The politician added that nobody should be afraid of discussing the mechanisms of transition from one administration to another, in order to ensure the continuity of the State, as all democracies do.
Chiyaka urged Angolans to maintain serenity and determination, without fear, since political power belongs to the people, not to the parties.
Meanwhile, the ruling MPLA, denied last Monday the existence of negotiations with the UNITA leadership about a hypothetical political transition.
Speaking in a press conference, the MPLA secretary of the PolitBuro for Political and Electoral Affairs, João de Almeida Martins, considered "gratuitous" the affirmations that have been made in this regard by the leader of UNITA, Adalberto Costa Junior.
João Martins said that Adalberto Costa Junior lacked truth, "because power is not negotiable", he said, having called on the UNITA leader to be more responsible on his approaches.
The MPLA secretary confirmed that he had an informal meeting with the leader of the opposition UNITA at the request of the latter, under the intermediation of the MPLA's whip, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, without, however, having ever touched on the transition issue.
"The meeting was an initiative of the president of UNITA, who wanted to talk to me, and we had no mandate to deal with transition business or whatsoever, because power is not negotiated, but conquered (…)", João Martins explained.
