Luanda - The plenary of the National Assembly (AN) Thursday rejected a request by the UNITA parliamentary group for a vote of protest against the acts allegedly committed against the citizen Ludmila Pinto, wife of the journalist and activist Cláudio Pinto.
UNITA presented this issue during the 2nd Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature of the AN, chaired by the Speaker of this sovereign body, Carolina Cerqueira.
Deputy Esteves Hilário, from the MPLA, said if the plenary voted in favor of UNITA's request, an absolutely worrying precedent would be set in the history of the parliament.
The MP added that "in a country of more than 30 million inhabitants there are individuals who are victims of robberies on a daily basis, noting that these individuals are as much citizens as the citizen Ludmila Pinto who was the subject of this request".
However, he clarified that this does not mean that the MPLA MPs do not sympathize with the situation of this citizen.
According to the deputy, the National Assembly is not and cannot be treated like a police station, where citizens file complaints about events that have happened to them.
According to the petition, citizen Ludmila Pinto, wife of journalist Emanuel Pinto, was the victim of persecution and three physical assaults (stab wounds).
The last attack, the document notes, took place on November 21 of this year in broad daylight, on a public road.
