Luanda - The National Assembly (parliament) wil on the 28th of this month discuss and vote, in general terms, the Bill on the Political-Administrative Division (DPA) of Angola, which provides for the creation of two more provinces and also new municipalities.
The information was released to the press this Friday by the 1st secretary of the National Assembly Board, Manuel Lopes Dembo, at the end of the Conference of Parliamentary Whips, which defined the agenda for the Plenary Meeting set for 28th February.
The Bill aims to promote a balanced development of the territory, bring public services closer to citizens, guarantee the full occupation of the territory, as well as rationalize State administration services, increase effectiveness, efficiency and equity.
The initiative foresees the creation of two new territorial units at provincial level, which will result from the division of the province of Moxico (Moxico and Cassai-Zambeze) and Cuando Cubango (Cuando and Cubango).
It also provides for the suppression of some sub-municipal districts and eliminate the current distinction between urban districts and communes.
Some of these units will rise to municipal level, taking into account geographical and demographic conditions and the need to guarantee effective control of national borders.
Consisting of 18 provinces, 164 municipalities, 518 communes and 44 urban districts, with this new DPA Angola will have 20, provinces, 325, municipalities and 375 communes.
From an economic and social point of view, this draft-law brings about benefits such as the reduction of inequalities and poverty rates within the population.
The DPA has a preambular part and a dispositive part, systematized into 22 chapters, 40 sections and 514 articles.
The National Assembly’s Plenary will also include the final global voting on other legal tools, namely the biils on Anti-Doping in Sports, Cryptocurrency Mining and other virtual articles and the one that changes the Organic Law of the Courts of Appeal.
The Anti-Doping Law in Sports Bill, whose joint expert opinion report was approved this Friday, results from an urgent request made by the Government, for Parliament to act on the issue.
The Legislative initiative, with 6 chapters and 74 articles, establishes the Legal regime against Doping in Sport, in harmony with the rules established in the International Anti-Doping Code.
After its approval, in the specialty, the Minister of Youth and Sports, Rui Falcão, said that the legislators recognized the need for the definitive approval of this document, of high importance for the country.
The MPs wil also discuss and vote on draft resolutions for the ratification of protocols linked to SADC, namely on Statistics, Tourism, the Mining Sector, Youth Empowerment and Protection of new seed varieties.
At the meeting, the MPs will equally discuss and vote on the draft Resolution that occasionally changes the direction of the first specialized working committee of the National Assembly, due to some adjustment that occurred at the level of this committee, on Constitutional and Legal Affairs.
Still during this Plenary meeting, the MPs will focus on the approval of a resolution that has to do with the creation of new friendship and solidarity groups within the Angolan parliament.
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