Africa-Press – Angola. The National Assembly (AN) will, on the 28th of this month, discuss and vote, in general, on the Proposed Law on the Political-Administrative Division (DPA), which provides for the creation of two (2) more provinces and 161 counties.
The information was released to the press this Friday by the first secretary of the National Assembly Board, Manuel Lopes Dembo, at the end of the Conference of Parliamentary Leaders, which defined the agenda for the Plenary Meeting on February 28th.
The Proposed Law on the Political-Administrative Division aims, on the one hand, to promote the balanced development of the territory, bring public services closer to citizens, guarantee the full occupation of the territory and, on the other, rationalize State administration services, increasing its 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 (now Moxico and Cassai-Zambeze) and Cuando Cubango (now Cuando and Cubango).
The Proposed Law also provides for the suppression of some sub-municipal districts and the elimination of the distinction between urban districts and communes.
Some of these units 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 the new Political-Administrative Division Angola will have 20 (twenty) provinces, 325 (three hundred and twenty-five) municipalities and 375 (three hundred and seventy-five) communes.
From an economic and social point of view, this proposed law provides for some benefits such as the reduction of inequalities and poverty rates within the population.
The Proposed Law on the Political-Administrative Division has a preambular part and a dispositive part, systematized into 22 chapters, 40 sections and 514 articles.
The Plenary of the National Assembly will also proceed to the final global vote on the proposals for the Law 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 proposal for an Anti-Doping Law in Sport, whose joint expert opinion report was approved this Friday, results from an urgent request made by the Government, for Parliament to comment on the issue.
The Legislative initiative, with six chapters and 74 articles, establishes the Legal regime against Doping in Sport, in harmony with the rules established in the World 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 capital importance for the country in sport.
The Plenary of the Assembly will, on the 28th, 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 this meeting, deputies will 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, deputies will proceed with the approval of a resolution that has to do with the creation of new friendship and solidarity groups within the National Assembly.
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