Luanda: Angola's Constitutional Court has declared null and void the first Ordinary National Convention of the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA), held on 30 August 2025, as well as all acts and resolutions arising from it. The decision is contained in the ruling on Case No. 1373-A/2025, brought by founding members of the PHA, who requested that the Convention be declared null and void and that the legitimate composition of the National Political Commission, established at the 2021 Constitutive Assembly and confirmed by Ruling No. 1001/2025, be recognised.
According to Angola Press News Agency, the Constitutional Court held that the Convention had been convened with a formal defect, owing to failure to comply with the required qualified decision-making quorum. This rendered the convening of the Convention and the acts carried out during the meeting invalid. The Court also found the exclusion of the applicants from the convening process and the Convention proceedings to be illegitimate, despite Ruling No. 1001/2025 having restored their status as members of the National Convention.
Consequently, the plenary of the Constitutional Court ordered the PHA to recognise and treat the applicants, in subsequent party organisational proceedings, as legitimate members of the National Political Commission, in accordance with the composition established at the 2021 Constitutive Assembly and confirmed by Ruling No. 1001/2025. The Court also ordered the PHA to convene a new National Convention within 120 days of being notified of the ruling, in strict compliance with the applicable legal and statutory requirements.
The case was brought by Ivo Miguel Gon§alves Ginguma and others in their capacity as founding members of the Humanist Party of Angola. The proceedings stemmed, among other matters, from the holding of the Convention on 30 August 2025, following an extraordinary meeting of the National Political Commission on 7 July, which decided to provisionally suspend the party's then-president, Florbela Malaquias.
The Court also held that the annulment of the applicants' expulsion, already declared in Ruling No. 1001/2025, had retroactive effect, meaning that they had never legally lost their status as members of the National Political Commission. Founded in December 2020 and legally registered in May 2022, the party won two seats in the National Assembly in the 2022 general elections.
