Parliament Speaker Calls for Promotion of Truth

19 July 2011

Luanda — The National Assembly (Angolan Parliament) speaker, Paulo Kassoma, Tuesday in Luanda, appealed to the MPs to report facts with truth and avoid to wrongly use the expression political intolerance, if national reconciliation is to be attained.

The Parliament leader made the appeal during the debate on the report from the National Inquiry Commission at the second extraordinary session of the National Assembly.

The speaker said that when the Parliament received the request from opposition UNITA’s parliamentary group to appoint an inquiry commission, the intention was to establish the truth of facts.

“This is a truth commission. We must be aware of the evil we do and the changes we have to make in our behaviours and in our words to avoid that these events disturb the environment and harmony that should exist among Angolans, ” he said.

To him, according to the CPI report, family rows are also wrongly incorporated as political intolerance.

“We did an exercise that aims to consolidate democracy, harmony and national reconciliation which are necessary to continue with the programmes of reconstruction and development in the country,” he added.

The parliament approved the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission’s report with 153 votes in favour, 11 against and no abstention. The Commission spent three months in central Huambo province, to probe allegations of political intolerance in the region raised by Unita, but no case was proved.

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