3/25/2008
Parliament’s First Deputy Speaker on Development of Local Administration

The first deputy speaker of the National Assembly (Parliament), João Lourenço stressed in Luanda the importance of joining efforts for the development of local administration in the country.

The meeting will enable participants to discuss the importance of the Angolan parliament in managing local interests, as well as the need of associating State decision-making organs with the population.

He added that “experiences on the issue should be discussed, both in the framework of financial decentralization and the development of the municipality, as of the relation between chieftains and official state authorities in modern times”.

João Lourenço said that as a result of this, the workshop aimed at contributing for the relation and understanding of mechanism to be considered in the socio-economic development of Angola, avoiding at all costs the increase of regional unevenness and promote interior development through knowledge.

Due to this, he defended that the guarantee of the fundamental rights of citizens is one of the key pillars in which the democracy of any pluralist society lies. He referred that this aspects involve their direct participation in seeking and making important decisions not only relating to them, but mainly with the development of regions and localities of their areas of jurisdiction, thereby improving the living conditions.

The workshop is organized by the fourth commission of the National Assembly, which is responsible for the State Administration of the State and of the Local Power of the Parliament. At the meeting, the MPs will analyze, among other issues, the “Public/private partnership, as a means of promoting municipal development”.