Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Union Association of Conservatives and Notaries of Cape Verde spoke out against the Government’s decision to transfer powers from conservators and notaries to lawyers. “It does not represent the interests of the class”.
The protest was made by the president of this association, Jorge Pires, at a press conference, this Saturday, in Praia, following recent statements by the Minister of Justice, when visiting the Notary and Identification services based in Praia.
“If there is such a purpose by the Government, it is only the Government’s responsibility to create the good and bad conditions for a dignified exercise, as this political option to be implemented does not represent the interests of our classes”, he declared.
According to the unionist, this decision is in line with the “unconfessed and muted interests of well-identified lawyers”, who have long “come in the fashion of the wolf”, as someone who wants nothing, “transverted from a lamb, with the purpose of decimating the lamb that is within your reach”.
“Who doesn’t remember the long-ago 90’s when there was a stubborn attempt to make lawyers ‘part-time’ notaries in the Macanese fashion or in the Lisbon fashion. We have to be aware and certain that not all the winds that come from these places are good, who are these accredited lawyers, if to be accredited it is enough to become members of the Bar Association”, he insinuated.
In this way, he informed that this association will ask the Cape Verde Bar Association to clarify this purpose and about this “diffuse figure”, questioning that it will help them if the Ministry of Justice itself, whose authority is not the lawyers, but of notaries and conservators, to understand that it is necessary to protect those who are not in their remit.
“If that is the case, it is time to start reflecting on the best luck in the sector, to make conservative notaries into working professionals, because the State on which we depend cannot guarantee us a better future”, he said.
On the other hand, he accused the Directorate-General for Registries, Notaries and Identification, the entity whose mission is to administratively manage the notaries and registry offices, within the Ministry of Justice, of not presenting solutions to the tutelage, which he regretted, justifying that he did not are being properly represented.
However, he welcomed, even so, the visit of the minister of tutelage to these services, which for the association, he underlined, shows that “after all, there is someone who is attentive and wants to take the pulse and rein in the most pressing issues that afflict the sector”, which faces reform problems.
“The notary registration and identification sector does need reforms, but urgently reforms that are as necessary and vital as bread to the mouth”, said Jorge Pires.
He pointed out that the Associação Sindical dos Conservadores e Notarios de Cabo Verde is certain that the reform of the Notary and Identification Registry (RNI) involves, above all, the strengthening and training of staff, and the revision of its statutes, with a view to clarifying two careers, that of notaries and that of conservatives.
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