Luanda - The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Gilbert Houngbo, praised on Friday in Luanda the way democracy is institutionalized in the National Assembly of Angola.
Speaking to the press, after an audience with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, he praised the peaceful cohabitation between the political parties in this institution.
According to the director, the meeting served, among others, to address the actions towards the opening of the ILO office in Luanda, as well as to be informed about the work of the Angolan Government in the areas of social inclusion, worker protection and the fight against forced labour in minors.
Gilbert Houngbo also underlined the way in which National Assembly deals with gender and child issues.
'It was a meeting of great importance with the president of the National Assembly and her commissions, for the active way in which the Angolan authorities have worked, giving some priority to the ratification of ILO protocols,' he said.
'When a norm or law is approved, it must first be ratified in Parliament, which is why it maintains dialogue with parliaments so that the whole system works in a combined way,' he argued.
In turn, the Angolan parliamentary leader, Carolina Cerqueira, gave an explanation about the structure, composition and functioning of the AN, noting that the legislative body is attentive to the development of international conventions on labor, access to work as a fundamental right.
Carolina Cerqueira also said that the parliament is unicameral, and its bodies are composed based on the proportionality of the seats of each political party, with respect for gender and generational representativeness, in a proportion of 50% of the members of its Bureau, as well as the political plurality of the hemicycle.
Founded in 1919 to promote social justice, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is represented in 187 member states.
Its mission is to promote opportunities for men and women to have access to decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security and dignity. MGM/SC/DOJ
