Luanda – The ruling MPLA party will continue to value the gender meritocracy in the country, the party’s vice-president, Luísa Damião, said on Monday in Luanda.
Speaking to the press, after the party’s Central Committee Meeting, the politician said that women rule with reason and emotion, but also with a lot of responsibility.
The politician believes that women are capable of finding small solutions to solve big problems, proving their role in the struggle for national liberation, for peace, in the country's development process, among others.
She underlined that women are educators par excellence and have the ability to have a deep understanding of the problems of families and society.
Luisa Damião added that the party does not want gender parity to make numbers, so it is guided by the quality and merit of the women nominated.
She noted that the MPLA will continue to fight to achieve gender parity, as recommended by the United Nations.
“It is a commitment by the party’s president, in compliance with a UN recommendation, for member states to achieve gender parity by 2030,” she said.
According to Luísa Damião, the election, by the MPLA, of women candidates for vice-president of the Republic and Speaker of the National Assembly, in addition to the others in the Courts of Auditors, Constitutional and Executive power, was a good initiative.
The meeting, which elected the candidates for Vice-President of the Republic, Speaker of the National Assembly and MPs, was chaired by the President of MPLA, João Lourenço.
