Luanda - The plenary session of the Angolan Constitutional Court (TC) recently closed the lawsuit filed by former MP Estevão José Pedro Kachiungo, who had objected to the process of three deliberations made by the main opposition group, due to the fact that the rights he had invoked were reinstated by his party.
According to Ruling No. 947/2024, released on Monday, Jan 6, once the plaintiff's rights have been restored by UNITA, any decision by the Constitutional Court becomes devoid of useful effect, under the terms of the law.
To justify its decision, the TC invoked the rules of paragraph e) of article 287 of the Civil Procedure Code, relating to article 2 of the Constitutional Procedure Law.
Estevão José Pedro Kachiungo filed the lawsuit to challenge deliberations made by UNITA in 2021, 2023 and 2024, claiming that the party’s board violated the organisation’s statutes and the law.
The TC warned that the lack of a decision on the “qualms” presented by party member Estevão José Pedro Kachiungo, submitted by him at the level of the party's internal bodies, generated uncertainty regarding his rights within the party.
Estevão José Pedro Kachiungo was one of the candidates for the UNITA chair at the XIII Ordinary Congress of this political force, which took place in Luanda, in 2019, having elected Adalberto Costa Júnior as head of this party.
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