Marcelo talks about “definitive protagonist” in relations with Portugal
“President José Eduardo dos Santos was the interlocutor of all Portuguese Presidents in Democracy, for four decades, constituting a decisive protagonist in the relations between the Angolan and Portuguese States and Peoples”, reads the official message on the website of the Presidency of the Republic.
In that three-paragraph note, it is also mentioned that “Portugal witnessed the respect due to this long memory, in a crucial period for the birth and functioning of the CPLP and the aggrandizement” of “bilateral relations after decolonization”.
Speaking to SIC, minutes before the release of the note, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa precisely underlined the idea that he was “a decisive protagonist in more diverse moments of these decades, from the late 1970s until the replacement by President João Lourenço in 2019 ” .
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has already revealed that he has presented conencias by telephone to the President of Angola, João Lourenço, that “Portugal is our prime minister of Foreign Affairs and for Exéquias”.
“It is because he is a personality that marked relations in an immediately sensitive period, which was the period immediately after the post-independence institutionalization in Angola and also when in Portugal the first democracy was being institutionalized”, he maintained.
José Eduardo Santos succeeded Neto as President of Angola in 197 in 197, left the post of longest presidents and non-world, marked by control in 200 and nepotism.
In 2017, the current President, João Lourenço, resigned to stand for re-election, succeeding him in office, having also been for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which has governed the country since independence from Portugal in 1975.