The presidents of the parliamentary groups of the PSD in the assemblies of Azores and Madeira welcomed this Friday the “reinforcement of the joint action” of the two insular regions carried out through the summit between both governments.
João Bruto da Costa (Azores) and Jaime Filipe Ramos (Madeira) declared that the Azores/Madeira Summit “represented the strengthening of the joint action of the autonomous regions in defense of the interests of the Azorean and Madeiran peoples”.
“This was one more step in the process of rapprochement between the two autonomous communities.It began in June this year, with the joint parliamentary sessions of the PSD/Azores and the PSD/Madeira”, said the parliamentarians, quoted in a press release.
The presidents of the governments of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, and of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, promoted an insular summit this month in which the regional secretaries of both insular Executives participated in Funchal.
The Social Democrats – who were speaking on the sidelines of the First Interparliamentary Meeting, which brought together MEPs and parliamentarians from the Assembly of the Republic and regional parliaments in Ponta Delgada – considered the announcement of the creation of a working group, headed by Eduardo Paz Ferreira , for the revision of the Tax Law of the Autonomous Regions (LFRA).
According to the island parliamentary leaders, “it is essential to stabilize the financial relationship between the State and the autonomous communities”, and “a new LFRA must be designed that takes into account the principles of fairness, stability and objectivity”.
The parliamentary leaders consider that “the principle of equity is materialized with a new LFRA that takes into account the structural and permanent conditions of each region”, while “the principle of stability” is ensured by a law immune to political circumstances”.
“The principle of objectivity is fulfilled with a new LFRA that does not allow subjective interpretations,” the deputies pointed out.
João Bruto da Costa and Jaime Filipe Ramos rejected “any attempt at divisionism in this process, either by centralist agents or by other political forces that only want to make the revision of the Regional Finance Law unfeasible due to partisan calculation” .
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The presidents of the parliamentary groups of the PSD in the assemblies of Azores and Madeira also highlighted the need to “unleash a constitutional review process dedicated exclusively to issues related to autonomies”, which “must have as references the clarification of autonomous powers , the objective of the surveillance of the State personified by the representative of the Republic and the stabilization of financial relations between the State and the Autonomous Communities”.
It was also announced that the PSD/Azores and PSD/Madeira parliamentary groups intend to organize new joint parliamentary sessions in the first quarter of 2023, in Madeira.
Source: Observadora
