João Lourenço, Angolan President and also President of MPLA and Head of the Executive Branch, considered today that, given the “sea of difficulties” resulting from the low price of oil and Covid-19, the “only way out” that remains to Angola is “ to produce internally everything that the country’s potential allows ”. It took 45 years to discover, so it is credible that it takes another 55 years to materialize.
“Eto stimulate the domestic production of goods and services, relying on national and foreign private investment in agriculture, fisheries, industry, tourism, real estate and other branches of the national economy, ”said João Lourenço today.
The President of Angola, who was speaking at the Presidential Palace, in Luanda, at the inauguration ceremony of the members of the Economic and Social Council, stressed that the stimulus of domestic production should contribute to the “increase in the supply of jobs”, especially for young people.
At least 46 people, including economists, academics, environmentalists, analysts, sycophants and other actors in Angolan civil society make up the current Economic and Social Council, recently created and now installed. João Lourenço said he had the knowledge and experience of the personalities that make up the Council.
“To find together the best ways out of this difficult situation in which we find ourselves,” he said, stressing: “But that will be overcome if we work together and with optimism and hope on better days”.
“The storm will pass, but the boom only comes with the organized and selfless work of the best children in the country, of those who seek to do well what they know how to do, putting that knowledge in favor of the country’s economic and social development,” he noted. And if it is possible that the “best children of the country” are from the MPLA, then salvation and paradise will be right there around the corner.
The Angolan President also expressed confidence to the members of the Economic and Social Council, referring: “Together we will discover the opportunities that lie behind what appears to be only difficulties”. “Together we will discover ways to create wealth and end poverty,” he noted.
In a look at the world difficulties, aggravated by the fall of oil and by Covid-19, with negative reflexes also for the socioeconomic condition of Angola, he said that the situation “obliges to be more ingenious and creative”.
Stressing that everyone wants “the best” for Angola, “regardless of who has the mandate of the people to govern”, he stressed that throughout the three years of mandate at the head of power in Angola, the executive has sought “to always work with society organized civil society ”. In other words, organized civil society opines but João Lourenço decides.
“With the NGOs, churches, professional and business associations that have helped us to find the best ways to solve the economic and social problems that we face”, he pointed out.
Economists Alves da Rocha, Carlos Rosado de Carvalho, José Severino and Precioso Domingos, environmentalist Vladimir Russo and women’s rights activist and defender Delma Monteiro are some of the personalities that make up the Economic and Social Council.
Showing what they are going on, the members of the Economic and Social Council praised the creation of the organ considering that it will be a “privileged space for the influence of public policies” and where João Lourenço will have “better information to decide”. Because!
“This can be considered a step, in a good way, this Council has a group of people who think in their own head and who say what they think, and this is what I hope that the councilors will do and that I personally will do with the President” , said economist Carlos Rosado de Carvalho. And since it is not a sin … waiting is a quality. In fact, in Angola, the Portuguese popular adage that tells us that “those who hope despair” does not apply. Here, only what affirms that “whoever waits always reaches”.
For the also journalist, one of the 46 members that make up the Economic and Social Council, the Angolan head of state will not have to do what the councilors say. “We are not going to say what the President wants to hear, but we are going to say what we think and make a contribution and, in the case of economists, I am sure that the President of the Republic will have better information to decide,” he added.
Delma Monteiro, executive director of the Angolan Gender Policy Observatory Association (Assoge), also in office today, considers the council to be a “privileged space for the influence of public policies”.
“We want to believe that we can make a real contribution to public policies that bring tangible improvements in the lives of economically vulnerable women in the country,” he said. The defender of women’s rights “zungueira”, also said that Assoge, which advocates greater social inclusion, notes that “several programs approved over time ended up being exclusive to ‘zungueira’ women”.
For her part, the economist and university professor Laurinda Hoyggard also pointed out the importance of the Economic and Social Council, composed of various sensitivities of Angolan civil society, for the country.
“It is about the intention to enrich the contributions so that each time we have a better life for our country and all people”, he said.
The members of the Economic and Social Council must, in fact, do what João Lourenço recommended to the Council of the Republic, that is, that they conjugate well the verb reflect. And it is for this same reason that, although Folha 8 is only part of the Council of those who refuse to move the spine and intestine the brain, we reflect every day.
So, brethren, let us then reflect. I reflect, you reflect, it reflects, we reflect, you reflect, they reflect. Or is it more accurate to say: I will reflect, you will reflect, he will reflect, we will reflect, you will reflect, they will reflect?
For yes and no, it would be good for me to reflect, for you to reflect, for him to reflect, for us to reflect, for you to reflect, for him to reflect.
However, the best of all (according to the MPLA) is do not reflect you, do not reflect him, do not reflect us, do not reflect you, do not reflect them …
Sheet 8 with Lusa
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