The only point of the meeting will be to establish a temporary committee to prepare a report and opinion on the matter, which must be submitted within a specified deadline.
In order to be formed, the committee must respect the rules of proportional representation and must obtain an absolute majority of the current representatives for approval.
Once he has concluded his opinion on the process, the President of the National Assembly must convene a new extraordinary plenary session within 72 hours to decide on the issue.
After discussing the report, parliamentarians will have to approve the decision by a two-thirds majority of the current representatives.
According to Article 129 of the Constitution, the President of the Republic may only be removed from office for crimes of treason, espionage, bribery, embezzlement, and permanent inability to continue in office.
The impeachment motion was formally submitted on Thursday by the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the second largest party within the legislature, with 90 seats.
Given this fact, and as an inevitable matter of regulations, the President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, summoned the representatives members of the Standing Committee for this Friday, who agreed to hold the extraordinary session on Saturday.
Three months ago, lawmakers from the country’s largest opposition party announced they would introduce the motion, claiming that more than a year into his second term, Lourenço had “sabotaged the democratic process” and “strengthened an authoritarian regime that threatens peace.” “And citizen rights.”
According to press statements by the leader of the UNITA parliamentary bloc, Liberty Chiaka, 90 deputies have signed the draft, which consists of 100 pages and more than 200 articles.
This number meets the requirements set by the parliamentary regulations, according to which the initiative for procedures for impeachment and dismissal of the President of the Republic returns to the National Council, and the proposal must be presented by a third of the current representatives.
Meanwhile, MPLA deputies, who have 124 seats in the Legislative Council, maintain their support for their party president, João Lourenço, who is serving his second term, after the MPLA won the elections. General elections 2022.
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