Luanda – Angola’s Constitutional Court (TC) has denied reports alleging that it has decided on the public tender to fill the position of President of the National Electoral Commission (CNE), as posted on social media.
In a statement distributed to the press on Saturday (26), the Court clarifies that the Plenary of Judges, made up of 11 Magistrates, has started the trial of the case containing the number 812-D / 2020, and foresees the conclusive decision for the first month of 2021.
The source states that the TC is to make a pronouncement on the pending actions in a process that is going through its proceedings in its sphere.
The decision follows the exceptional public interest in the subject and due to the leakage to social network of a proposal made by a Counselor Judge, in pre-trial stage, as it is up to the Plenary to partially or fully adopt or modify it.
The statement clarifies that the practice of the Constitutional Court is not to publicise the intermediate acts of the cases, as happens in some countries, such as Mozambique and Portugal, and differently from the Constitutional Courts of Cape Verde (where a limited number of people are allowed to watch the trial) and Brazil (where the trial is broadcast live on “TV Justiça”).
The Constitutional Court guarantees that, as always, as soon as the trial is completed, with the adoption of the final ruling, the parties directly concerned will be immediately notified and, then, posted on its website.
