Luanda – National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved Thursday the draft resolution on the composition of numbers and the names of the ten specialised working commissions and named their leaders.
The ruling MPLA party, winner of the August 24 General Elections with an absolute majority, heads six specialised commissions, while UNITA, with 90 seats, is in charge of the four.
The MPLA chairs the 1st commission (Constitutional and Legal Affairs), 2nd (Defence, National Security, Internal Order and Former Combatants), 5th (Economy and Finance), 6th (Health, Environment, Science and Technology, Labour and Social Security), 9th (Education, Higher Education, Science and Technology) and 10th (Mandate, Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum).
UNITA with the 3rd commission (Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Angolan Communities Abroad), the 4th (Local Government Administration), the 7th (Culture, Religious Affairs and Social Communication and Youth and Sports) and the 8th (Family, Gender and Childhood).
MPLA MPs Joaquim Reis Júnior, Ruth Mendes, Aia-Eza Nacília Gomes da Silva Troso, Victor Kajibanga, Sérgio Leonardo Vaz and Vigílio Tyova are leaders of the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th commissions, respectively.
UNITA deputies Alcides Sakala Simões, Franco Menezes Marcolino Nhani, Paulo Faria and Clarice Mukunda in charge of the 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th commissions, respectively.
The approval of the commissions took place during the 1st Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature of
the National Assembly, chaired by the Parliament Speaker, Carolina Cerqueira.
The plenary also approved the Draft Resolution on the composition of the Board of Directors of the National Assembly, which is chaired by the MP Suzana de Melo.
Under the proposal of the parliamentary group, the session also elected members of the National Assembly Board:
They are Suzana de Melo, Manuel Armando Ekuikui, Nimi a Simbi, Agostinho Pedro de Neri (secretary general of the National Assembly) and João Francisco António (representative of parliamentary officials and agents).
On the other hand, the plenary approved the Resolution on the composition of the Group of Women Parliamentarians, led by MP Teresa Adelina da Silva Neto, and the 1st vice-president Maria Odeth Tavares.
The Plenary also approved the draft Resolution of the Permanent Commission of the AN and the Eventual Commission.
Source: Angola Press News Agency