17 April 2008
Luanda — The chairman of the National Electoral Commision (CNE), Caetano de Sousa Thursday here advised political parties and journalists to use a language that consolidates peace and unity between Angolan during the elections.
"The electoral process places people and political parties in a very strong state of psychological tension. Therefore, any inconvenient word or badly thought, foreseeing a political dividend, can generate conflict", affirmed the official at the opening ceremony of the conference on "elections, tolerance and mechanisms of preventing conflicts".
This way, he affirmed that political parties and journalists should, in their speeches, rallies or written works, avoid advertising opinions that might generate conflicts.
To him, advising, avoiding and curbing electoral conflicts demands discernment from people, so as to anticipate the consequences of the judgements on the facts or analysis of the ongoing process.
CNE's chairman warned that once a conflict starts it might not be controlled.
The conference on preventing conflicts is happening at the "Maria do Carmo Medina" auditorium, of the Law Faculty of Agostinho Neto University (UAN), in Luanda, and is being promoted by the Angolan Institute of Electoral and Democratic Systems (IASED), in collaboration with the National Electoral Commission (CNE).
"Mechanisms of preventing and solving conflicts" are also part of the programme of the meeting that ends this Thursday.
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