Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Prime Minister today highlighted the gains that Cape Verde achieved with political opening and the approval of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic, considering that these factors reflect the country’s stability and good governance.
Ulisses Correia e Silva, who spoke in the monthly debate of the second ordinary session of February, in parliament, on “Good Governance”, a theme proposed by the parliamentary group (GP) of the MpD, highlighted that Cape Verde was endowed with a modern constitution that erected the pillars of good governance such as civil and political freedoms, freedom of the press, economic freedom and democratic rule of law.
He pointed out that Cape Verde is today the freest country in Africa, with position 32 out of 165 countries in the world in the civil liberties and political index, the third country in Africa in the Democracy index, with position 35 in 167 countries in the world, second in Africa with the best classification in the transparency and corruption index, ranking 30th out of 180 countries and ranking 33rd out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom.
For the executive, these positions in international rankings are distinctive factors for the country in the concert of nations and portray the country’s stability and good governance, factors that, in his opinion, are increasingly important for the development of countries and good governance. international reputation and trust in relations with development partners and investors.
“In the troubled world we live in, with wars, conflicts, growth of authoritarian political regimes and populism, Cape Verde’s good positioning is very positive evidence and an added responsibility to care for, protect and permanently improve our democracy and ensure the good governance”, he highlighted.
In the same line of intervention, he said that the review of the electoral code and other reforms await the creation of political conditions for their implementation in parliament, and the review of the law on State incentives for social communication is underway, a new concession contract with the RTC, the law on the attribution of public utility status to private media bodies, the law on institutional advertising.
At the level of justice, he indicated that reducing slowness is a major priority, and policy measures have been adopted, with a “firm commitment” from the Superior Councils of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice in implementing the Plan of Pending Reduction.
“It is also in this same sense that the election of bodies external to parliament must be carried out with the priority that the proper functioning of institutions and the quality of our democracy requires”, he stated.
He added that macroeconomic and financial confidence was reinforced with the new organic law of the Bank of Cape Verde, and that the new statute of the INE, the public debt law and the new basic law of the OE reinforce the limits to economic governance.
On the other hand, he pointed out that the country’s transparency and international reputation in fiscal and financial matters was reinforced with Cape Verde’s removal from the European Union’s list of Non-Cooperative Tax Jurisdictions, but also Cape Verde’s accession to the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Tax Information (from the OECD) and accession to the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
The head of Government also referred to the 2024-2026 Strategic Concertation Agreement signed with trade unions and chambers of commerce and tourism, as an initiative of commitments that contribute to improving the country’s good governance.
The Prime Minister also highlighted that a set of policies were agreed at the level of sustainable economic growth and resilience, labor, active employment and employability, income and prices and protection and social inclusion.
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