The decision of the Constitutional Court that led to the legalization of PRA-JA, considered sudden and/or unexpected taking into account a previous trend in the opposite direction, was “guided” by the presidential office. Its mentors, among them CARLOS FEIJÓ, associated the measure with “potential” to provoke enough friction in the FPU to bring about its end.
Among the developments that the PRA-JA legalization process has already undergone, a proposal by its leader, ABEL CHIVUKUVUKU (AC), is considered especially delicate, with a view to transforming the FPU into a formal coalition of parties, thus abandoning the personality of electoral platform. The weak acceptance that the proposal apparently enjoys within UNITA is seen as a focus of divergence.
The scenario of a rupture in the FPU, to which it is believed that such divergences may lead, is aggravated by factors among which the difficulty that ADALBERTO COSTA JÚNIOR (ACJ) would have in imposing the acceptance of the proposal in his party, UNITA, and the narrow margin of retreat that AC has to do without it. READ MORE