“With the creation of this new factor of reorganization of the State itself, through 23 mini regions, we are facing one of the most serious decisions of this Government in terms of administrative reform”, considers the Socialist Deputy Miguel Freitas, who voted against the Bill that creates the Statute of Intermunicipal Entities and the legal regime for transferring the State and Municipalities to Metropolitan Areas and Intermunicipal Communities.
For the Algarve parliamentarian, who strongly criticizes the “mutism of the Executive in developing the entire process in isolation, choosing to create an intermediate level of subregional municipal administration, to the detriment of strengthening the five administrative regions”, the proposal approved last year Friday “it will consolidate a model based on structures without dimension or technical capacity to receive more skills, thus implying high costs for the State itself”.
“After extinguishing the position of Civil Governor, removing representation from the 18 Districts, this Government now decides to institute 23 Intermunicipal Communities and Metropolitan Areas, a process that will force the creation of new services and new paid management positions”, underlines Miguel Freitas, to who would this be the right time for the country to discuss a model of regionalization sustained in the five administrative areas?
"Instead of promoting a serious and serene discussion on regionalization, which would allow effective territorial articulation through the Regional Coordination and Development Committees (CCDR), the Government chooses to consolidate a model that is certainly the biggest obstacle to the institution of administrative regions”, criticizes Miguel Freitas, considering that the future model will be characterized especially by generating a “huge conflict” with the municipalities and the CCDRs, with no obvious counterparts in the efficiency of the services.
In the declaration of vote presented to the Assembly of the Republic, Miguel Freitas also points out as the foundations for his lead of Law Proposal no. 104/XII, the careless way in which the Government decides on matters important to the Country, at a time when the difficult conditions it is going through demand greater restraint on the part of the Government, namely in the rationalization of services.
"At a time when the country most needed a reform of local and regional administration built on the most consensual basis possible, so that it would last, the Government decides to be isolated against everything and everyone and opts for institutional experimentalism and overlapping of services ”, stresses the Algarve deputy, defending the reorganization of the deconcentrated State services in a “Balcão Único Regional” around the CCDR, to the detriment of the “mini regions”.
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