Luanda – The Constitutional Court (TC) on Wednesday formally opened the Data Processing Centre (CPD), an infrastructure linked to the reception, verification and validation of documents required for candidacies to the general elections.
With more than 200 employees, the CPD has several posts for processing, namely the areas of “list processing support”, “validation support”, “declaration”, “Criminal Record”, “Identity Card”, as well as an archive area.
The centre, adjacent to the CC’s Political Parties Office, has a room for lawyers and another for the press, among other facilities for the remaining electoral agents.
According to the president of the TC, Laurinda Cardoso, who led the ceremony, another important step was taken in the tasks under the jurisdiction of the institution, with a view to the accomplishment of the electoral process.
The judge said that after the elections have been called, the court will be in a position to receive the candidacies of the political parties that will be running in next August elections.
She said that, with this act, the TC fulfils its duty to inform and to safeguard the rights of all, as well as to reinforce the mechanisms of communication and approximation.
The official announced that, from now on, the candidacy presentations will be made based on a digital schedule, so that each party can have its own day and avoid unnecessary agglomerations.
Reactions
The MPLA Vice President, Luísa Damião, said she was impressed with the infrastructure and praised the TC for improving the conditions for political parties to deliver the documentation required by law.
She said that MPLA has all the documentation gathered and at the appropriate time will deliver it.
The Deputy Secretary General of UNITA, Virgílio Samussongo, said the TC is in a position, human and material, to receive the processes, praising the improvements presented.
CASA-CE believes that the TC is prepared to receive the candidacies and that some constraints that were felt in the past were taken care of, according to the leader of the coalition, Manuel Fernandes.
Source: Angola Press News Agency