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Angola: Regime ‘Probes’ Response to UNITA Court Ruling Circulating Draft; Instability Penalizes Lourenço

Public disclosure (social media) of a draft Constitutional Court ruling (TC), concluding that the UNITA congress held on DEC.21 is null and void, will have corresponded to a deliberate act.

The disclosure of the document, according to verified information, is attributed to SINSE, which will also be responsible for monitoring the respective feedback. There are, however, indications of an active intervention in the process of the Office of Strategic Studies and Analysis (GEAE), an organism that works within the scope of PR.

The release of the draft ruling took place about a week after ISAÍAS SAMAKUVA had made statements in the TC related to the validation process of the UNITA congress of DEC.21. In his view, the congress was convened in an environment of freedom and free will by the Political Commission; there were no phenomena of coercion or pressure during its course. READ MORE