Parishes are against regionalization in Portugal – Coimbra News
The National Association of Parishes (Anafre) today failed a large majority, in Braga, a motion that defends the implementation of regionalization in Portugal.
The motion “Implementation of Regionalization in Portugal”, which had as its first subscriber the president of the Parish Council of Ferrel, in Peniche, in the district of Leiria, Pedro Barata, had 267 votes against, 145 in favor and 41 abstentions.
At the moment when its rejection was announced, a clap was heard from the room of the Altice Forum Braga, where the XVIII Anafre Congress ends today.
Before the start of work, congressmen held a minute of silence in honor of the president of the Parish Council of Campanhã, in Porto, the socialist Ernesto Santos, who on Saturday, aged 74, suffered a prolonged illness.
The document, now rejected, argues that regionalization “brings efficient gains and deepens democracy in the country”.
In addition, it is mentioned that regionalization would contribute to a Government, Assembly of the Republic and Public Administration “more compact, light and quick, decentralized and less costly for the Portuguese State”.
“One can consider a path and a path that can be expected as tools and with information that is gradually sustained”, it can be considered as a path that is effective with a view to an implementation. proposal.
Unlike the Municipal Councils of the Development Congress, when the Municipalities (ANMP) were held, in this process,
The president of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP), Luísa Salgueiro, will ensure that the regionalization process can be used in the best possible way for all Portuguese people.
Earlier, the Prime Minister, António Costa, had said he wanted to “give a voice to the people” in 2024 on regionalization, after at the end of 2023 the path taken in terms of centralization was evaluated.
“I believe that by the end of 2023 we will have all the conditions to be able to assess the path, meanwhile taken, in terms of decentralizing competences to parish councils, municipalities and metropolitan areas”, he said at the time.