Luanda - The fifth legislature of the National Assembly (AN) begins on Friday (15), with the inauguration of the 220 MPs elected in the general elections of 24 August.
The programme was approved on Monday at the end of the Permanent Commission meeting of the National Assembly chaired by the current Speaker of the Parliament, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.
The Permanent Commission meeting also approved the programme of the seminar for the integration of the elected MPs, scheduled for September 19.
In the new composition of the National Assembly, whose legislature lasts until 2027, the MPLA will hold 124 seats, UNITA 90, and the PRS, FNLA and the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) with two, each, an insufficient number to form parliamentary groups.
The current second secretary of the National Assembly's board, Raul Lima, said, at the end of the Permanent Commission meeting, that all conditions have been created for the 220 members to occupy their seats in Parliament.
In addition to the swearing in of the members of National Assembly, the constitutive meeting of the fifth legislature will elect the National Assembly board, namely the Speaker of the National Assembly, the deputy-speakers and the secretaries.
