Luanda – Ruling MPLA party’s vice president Luísa Damião Thursday in Luanda urged her party's MPs to adopt an urban and patriotic parliamentary action.
The politician launched that appeal at the opening of the first parliamentary activities of the V Legislature of MPLA.
Luisa Damião asked the deputies for responsibility and respect for the rights of the other MPs.
“It is necessary to speak with urbanity, parliamentary decorum. Even when it comes to hot debate, one should know how to speak and represent with a patriotic and sovereign sense”, she stressed.
Luísa Damião appealed to the MPs for attendance and punctuality and to be active and productive in the debates of the specialties committees and in the plenary sessions.
The politician added that MPLA MPs have a patriotic obligation to do their best in the current legislature, which will require a lot of discipline, study, reflection and analysis of documents, as well as articulation of citizens' demands.
She also said MPLA parliamentarians should contribute, with rigour and competence, to the implementation of the Executive's programme taking into account the country's development and the well-being of Angolan families.
Luisa Damião recalled that the document approved in the August 24 elections aims to increasingly strengthen civil society institutions to continue building a new, more developed, democratic and inclusive Angola.
It also envisages consolidating the democratic State based on the rule of law, reforming the State, fighting corruption and impunity, decentralising and de-concentrating public administration and establishing local authorities.
The MPLA vice president said that the programme also aims to ensure macroeconomic stability, support the business sector, accelerate the diversification of the economy as well as defend territorial integrity, sovereignty and national security and promote Angola's image and role in the regional and international context.
In his turn, the leader of the Parliamentary group of MPLA, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, said that the first days will provide the MPs with the knowledge to master the necessary tools in the exercise of the parliamentary function.
The party’s first secretary in Luanda, Manuel Homem, said he hoped that the MPs will emerge strengthened in order to respond to the challenges of the current legislature (2022-2027).
The MPLA elected 120 of the 220 deputies to the National Assembly as result of the August 24 elections
