Luanda – Angola head of State João Lourenço Friday promulgated the Constitutional Revision Law approved by National Assembly (AN), following the ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC).
The Law was approved with 149 votes in favour, 5 against and 49 abstentions.
The Parliament scraped the norms considered unconstitutional by the Court.
They include the obligation of sending reports to the President and Parliament by the High Courts (Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Audit Court and Military Supreme Court) and Superior Council of Judiciary.
The TC states that the requirement for the submission, by the Superior Courts and the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSMJ), of annual reports of their activities to the President and the National Assembly, violates the principle of separation and interdependence of the sovereign bodies, which is within the material limits of constitutional revision.
Among other matters, the revision clarifies that the difficulties in the interpretation on supervision of the Executive by the National Assembly.
The revision also guarantees the exercise of the votes for those residing abroad and scraps from the Constitution the principle of gradualism in the implementation of the local elections.
The approved changes also feature the structure of positioning of institutions such as the Central Bank of Angola (BNA), which now has the constitutional statutes and a new way to appoint its governor.
The Constitution assigns to the Head of State and to one third of the 220 MPs of National Assembly, in full exercise of their functions, the initiative of constitutional revision.
Source: Angola Press News Agency