São Vicente: UCID calls for a “courageous, structural and transformative” reform of the State

Mindelo, Jun 30 (Inforpress) – Today, the Independent and Democratic Cape Verdean Union (UCID, opposition) proposed in Mindelo, that a “courageous, structural and transformative” reform of the State be carried out, with better governance and confirms that it is ready to assume this leadership.

João Santos Luís, the party's president, launched the challenge at a press conference, in which he said that the state of Cabo Verde ‘is failing with Cape Verdeans because it is too concentrated, too heavy, and too often ineffective’.

Hence the proposal for ‘a genuine, courageous, structural and transformative reform of the state’, when what we have seen, according to the same source, is ‘excessive centralisation as a silent form of territorial injustice’.

The current form of governance, João Santos Luís emphasised, ‘kills local initiative, hinders creative solutions and deepens the feeling of exclusion’.

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