The parliamentary committee on Local Power unanimously approved the reactivation of the working group on the disaggregation of parishes included in the 2013 administrative reform, the committee’s president told Lusa. There are 31 requests in the Braga district and four in Viana.
According to deputy Bruno Nunes (Chega), who chairs the Local Power and Territorial Cohesion committee, the political parties will now nominate their respective representatives in the group, which could resume work in May.
The law for the creation, modification or extinction of parishes, which came into force on December 21, 2021, allows parishes added in 2013 to revert the process to the conditions they had prior to aggregation, through a special and simplified transitional mechanism .
After completing all the formalities required at the local level, the Assembly of the Republic received until December 21, 2022, the deadline for requests, 182 draft proposals for the desegregation of aggregated parishes, according to the working group that completed its functions upon the dissolution of parliament.
However, around 140 were considered incomplete, meaning more elements were requested from the respective parish assemblies, according to a report from the working group that in parliament followed the parish desegregation process in the previous legislature.
Regarding the geographical origin of the desegregation requests received by parliament, Braga (31), Porto (28) and Aveiro (21) are the districts with the most requests, followed by Santarém and Viseu (12), Lisbon (11), Beja and Castelo Branco (10), Coimbra (09), Évora and Faro (08), Guarda, Leiria, Setúbal and Viana do Castelo (with 04 each), Portalegre (03), Vila Real (02) and Bragança (01).
The 2013 administrative reform reduced the number of parishes from 4,259 to 3,091
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