Luanda — The National Assembly will discuss and approve in general, on Wednesday (20), as a matter of urgency, the Bill to Change the Civil Protection Base Law.

Speaking to journalists, the whip of the ruling MPLA party, Américo Cuononoca, affirmed that the law, in force since 2003, became outdated in some aspects in face of the real situation that the country goes through due the pandemic of Covid-19.

On his turn, the deputy whip of the largest opposition party, UNITA, Maurilio Luyeye, stressed that his party agreed to include the discussion of this document in order to adapt it to the Constitution of the Republic of Angola and, above all, to allow it to be an instrument that regulates a series of aspects related to covid-19.

Meanwhile, the whip of the CASA-CE colaition, Alexandre Sebastião André, defended that the amendment bill to the Civil Protection Law has a worrying meaning because, he explained, if the pandemic slowed down its impact at national level, the President of the Republic would not have the concern to change this law.

Among other topics on the agenda of the plenary session, the highlight goes on the discussion and final global approval of the Organic Draft Law on the Functioning of the Ombuds Department and the Draft Statute of the Ombudsman, as well as the bills on Alterations to the Tax Code, Company Tax, General Regime of Inter-Mayoral Cooperation and the Status of the Holders of Posts in the Local Governments/Assemblies (yet to be institutionalized).