Africa-Press – Angola. University professor Carlos Teixeira defended, this Friday, in Huambo, a greater focus on training staff capable of ensuring the implementation of local elections in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Angola.
Carlos Teixeira was speaking at the end of the postgraduate course in “Local Governance and Municipalities”, held over the last 60 days, at the Faculty of Law of the José Eduardo dos Santos University (UJES), with 120 graduates, including municipal and deputy administrators, who addressed issues of a legal, financial and other nature.
On the occasion, he said that training of the kind helps to better prepare the level of intervention of future mayors, as public entities that develop their actions, in a defined part of the territory, based on the pursuit of interests of the local population.
In this way, he highlighted the importance and role of the Constitutional Court in elections and in Local Electoral Litigation, an action that attributes increased responsibilities to this body, which also plays the role of Electoral Court in Angola.
“In the case of municipalities, it will be the Constitutional Court that will receive all applications, deal with issues relating to any litigation that may exist, within the framework of the process, even after institutionalization, any dispute or controversial issue, between the municipalities and the State, will also be resolved by this body”, he explained.
In turn, the dean of the UJES Faculty of Law, João Valeriano, informed that, so far, the institution has already trained more than 100 staff from various regions of the country in postgraduate courses.
In this process, he added, they have the collaboration of the universities of Coimbra (Portugal) and Agostinho Neto (Angola), helping to prepare staff capable of anchoring the municipal process.
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