Africa-Press – Cape verde. The National Assembly meets this Wednesday, in the second ordinary session of January, with on the agenda the debate with the Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, on health and development, and the proposed law that regulates surveillance electronics.
In previewing the debates, the MpD parliamentary group, through deputy Vanuza Barbosa, praised “the gains that the country has achieved in the health sector, highlighting the “exemplary” work done in the fight against Covid-19 and the certification as a free country of malaria.
The opposite position on the topic proposed by the MpD was expressed by the PAICV, whose parliamentarian Paula Moeda considered that the country needs “urgent improvements” in health, a sector with “a portfolio of unfulfilled promises”.
The UCID, according to deputy Dora Pires, intends to question the Government about policies in relation to primary care, prevention and educational programs, aiming to “draw everyone’s attention to health” and inquire about government measures to address the lack of medicines in the market, a worrying situation, especially for chronically ill people”.
The work agenda for this session also includes the approval of the proposed law that creates the Justice Information System, and the new general legal regime for the electronic processing of processes in the covered institutions and makes the third amendment to the Civil Procedure Code, for final global voting.
Parliamentarians will also consider the proposed law that regulates the use of technical means of remote control or electronic surveillance (electronic bracelet) of defendants or convicted people and makes the fourth amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure, approved by Decree – Legislative no. 2/2005, of February 7th (global final vote);
The draft resolution that amends resolution no. 17/X/2021, of October 13, which creates the Parliamentary Friendship Groups, among other points, will also be debated.
The second ordinary session of the National Assembly will take place from the 24th to the 26th of this month.
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