Africa-Press – Cape verde. The President of the Republic, José Maria Neves, today promulgated the State Budget for 2023. However, he called for dialogue and consensus to face the crisis.
In the letter accompanying the promulgation, sent to the President of the National Assembly (Parliament), Austelino Correia, José Maria Neves calls for greater attention to the populations, especially the most disadvantaged classes, in terms of measures to mitigate the effects of this “polycrisis”. , on people’s quality of life, in particular with regard to rising prices of goods and food products.
The Head of State leaves, however, some reflections, namely on the need for “dialogue, understandings and consensus” between the main political, economic and social actors, in this “conjunction of high uncertainty” and “a changing economic framework with contours unpredictable”, given the multiple crises that the country and the world have been facing.
Cost containment and rationalization
The highest magistrate of the Nation also referred that the “OE2023 maintains, practically, the same matrix as that of the State Budget in force, not resulting in any substantial changes in fiscal policy, in debt policy, in income and price policy, as well as any significant effort to contain and rationalize expenses”.
From the analysis of the OE’2023, José Maria Neves warned, however, of “the question of possible organic unconstitutionality of article 6 of the Law that approves the State Budget for 2023, since the norm does not respect number 3 of article 161 .o, which imposes a majority in voting on matters relating to the holders of Bodies of Sovereignty, which naturally includes the provisions of paragraph i) of article 176.
Status of holders of sovereign bodies
Elections and status of holders of sovereign bodies and local authorities, as well as other constitutional bodies or bodies elected by direct and universal suffrage” (all of the Constitution of the Republic), appear on the list of these concerns of the Head of State.
In effect, the missive reads, these combined provisions reserve absolutely the legislative competence of the National Assembly the matter of the statute of holders of sovereign bodies, imposing a qualified majority, that is, a majority of two thirds of the deputies present since than the absolute majority of deputies in office, the legislative activity that focuses on these matters.
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