Luanda - The Law on Institutionalization of municipal Authorities will be discussed and voted on, in general, by the National Assembly, in a plenary session scheduled for the 23rd of this month.
The decision came from the conference meeting of leaders of the Parliamentary Groups, which took place Friday, under the guidance of the National Assembly Speaker, Carolina Cerqueira.
The Members of the Parliament (MP) will discuss two proposals, one from the Executive and another from the Unita Parliamentary Group called “Proposal for a Law on the Effective Institutionalization of Local Authorities”.
The Bill had already entered parliament in the previous legislature, which approved it only in general, having lapsed due to parliamentary rules and customs.
This is because this custom determines that proposals and bills that did not receive a final global vote during the previous legislature expire during the course of the following legislature.
The proposed Law on the Institutionalization of Municipal Authorities aims to establish the rules on the creation of these local government entities, as well as transition measures between the State's local administration and the autonomous administration.
The Local Legislative Package already contains ten of the 13 legal instruments that will regulate the exercise of local authority power in the country, within the framework of the ongoing local authority implementation project.
This is the Law on Symbols of Local Authorities; Organic Law that Approves the Statute of Local Elected Members; Law on Acts and Forms of Local Authorities; Local Government Fees Regime Law; Law on the Financial Regime of Local Authorities; Organic Law on Local Elections; Law on the General Regime of Inter-Autarchic Cooperation; Organic Law on the Organization and Functioning of Local Authorities; Law on Transparency of State Duties and Competencies for Local Authorities; and the Administrative Guardianship Law over Local Authorities.
The Bill, promulgated by the President of the Republic, define the general framework for attributing powers of the municipal function, composition and functioning, as well as the principles and rules.
To the ten legal instruments mentioned above, three more will be added, whose Law Proposals were delivered to the National Assembly, after being analyzed by the Council of Ministers, namely the Bill on the Institutionalization of Local Authorities; the Proposed Law that approves the Remuneration Statute of the Holders of Bodies and Services of Municipal Authorities and the Organic Law of the Municipal Guard.
Schedule
However, the plenary session on the 23rd, according to the spokesperson of the National Assembly, Manuel Lopes Dembo, will also have on its agenda the discussion and vote, in general, on the proposal that amends the Anti-Doping in Sports Law.
The agenda also includes the discussion and final global vote on proposed laws that amend the Angolan Penal Code, on International Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters, on the Prevention and Combat of Terrorism and on Combating Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorism and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. FMA/ART/DOJ
