Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Territorial Administration, Dionísio da Fonseca, considered the country’s new Political-Administrative Division as a factor that will significantly contribute to the functioning of future municipalities in Angola.
In statements to the press, at the end of his working visit, in the province of Cabinda, the governor defined the Political-Administrative Division as a process of organization and restructuring of the territory, for the exercise of governmental activity, focusing on satisfying the interests collective.
For the minister, local authorities will contribute to the exercise of State power and the distribution of local administration responsibilities.
He agreed that the Angolan State is a deconcentrated unitary state, controlled by central bodies and bodies of the State’s local administration.
Dionísio da Fonseca clarified that, with local authorities, the power of administration is distributed in the localities where autonomous bodies have the responsibility for administering certain parts of the national territory.
For example, he said, the province with the territorial dimension of Cuando-Cubango and Moxico is difficult to govern, in the process of administrative concentration or decentralization, as a result of its geographical extension. In the same sense, he continued, it happens with the demographic density of some municipalities, such as Viana (Luanda).
“When we decided to move forward with changing the territorial division of Viana, we immediately thought about ensuring that it is a properly decommissioned space, with a balanced population and subject to the governance of the administration or future municipalities”, he highlighted.
However, Dionísio da Fonseca said that deconcentration and decentralization contribute to national development, but the Constitution of the Republic provides for the coexistence between a deconcentrated administration and decentralized administration.
He made it known that, at this moment, the Executive is strengthening the powers of municipal administrations, through the construction and completion of administrative and municipal infrastructures.
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