The PS of the Azores delivered to parliament a preliminary bill that aims to “clarify the powers” and “perfect the instruments” of the autonomous regions during states of emergency and calamity, and in the public health law, it was announced this Friday.
Quoted in a note sent to the newsrooms, the socialist deputy Berto Messias explains that the proposals presented “respond to the challenges of clarifying and strengthening autonomous competencies” launched by the Covid-19 pandemic, “that is, in terms of health and civil protection”.
The PS/Azores parliamentary group delivered this bill to the Regional Legislative Assembly, within the framework of the work of the eventual commission for deepening autonomy.
According to the party, the changes proposed by PS/Azores include “the clarification of the powers of the self-government bodies in the execution of the declaration of the state of alarm“.
Berto Messias says that these proposals give continuity to work that “the previous PS Regional Government had already been developing” to “improve the instruments available to the region in the area of the Legal Regime of the Civil Protection System of the Autonomous Region of Azores”. and public health surveillance.
PS Azores also had this intention in its electoral program and, as the party with the most votes in the last regional elections in October 2020, it seems natural and fundamental to us until we fulfill the commitments that we have proposed to the Azoreans for this four-year term. ”, emphasizes the PS deputy in the parliament of the Azores.
The proposed changes also give a “complete response”, according to the deputy, to the “new challenges” that the pandemic situation has posed, specifically “at the level of the laws that regulate the state of siege and the state of exception” and ” theSpecific powers of public health and civil protection authorities in the territories of the autonomies.
According to Berto Messias, the period of the pandemic “revealed needs for improvement and a legislative framework appropriate to a set of regulatory realities.”
Source: Observadora
