Africa-Press – Cape verde. The impasse that reigned in the Association of the Municipalities of Fogo and Brava (AMFB) in relation to the presidency was overcome in the association meeting that elected Fábio Vieira to succeed Nuías Silva in the presidency of the Association.
As Inforpress advances, after the AMFB meeting held on August 4th at the headquarters of the Regional Development Agency (ADR), the Municipality of Mosteiros announced on its official page the choice of the municipality of Mosteiros, through its president Fábio Vieira , to chair the presidency of the AMFB for the next two years.
Several attempts
This happened after several attempts, with more than three meetings, to define the new presidency of the Association.
The four municipalities in the region then reached an understanding with the choice of Mosteiros to assume the presidency, succeeding São Filipe who has been directing the AMFB since 2015.
Statutes
According to the AMFB statute, the president of the association is not appointed on a rotating basis, but elected by the Intermunicipal Assembly, on a proposal from the Board of Directors.
Created in 1999, the general objective of the AMFB is to promote, defend, dignify and represent the local power of the associated municipalities, as well as to defend and integrate the economic and social policies of its members, regardless of the attributions of each municipality.
Its statute also foresees the carrying out of studies and projects on relevant matters of local power, projects of economic and social impact, as well as the monitoring of their execution in the general interest of the members.
Among the missions is still preparing and approving the development plan for the region, creating services and offices for the pursuit of its purposes and its members.
Likewise, implementing training actions for local elected officials and professional improvement of Local Administration personnel and decentralized State services, and developing actions aimed at better articulation between local power and the different decentralized services in the region, are other purposes that were at the base of of the creation of the AMFB.
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