The Government, represented by the Minister for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Agio Pereira; the Minister for State Administration, Tomás do Rosário Cabral; the Vice Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Adérito Hugo da Costa; and the Vice Minister of Finance, Felicia Carvalho; accompanied by the President of the Special Administrative Region of Oé-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA), Arsénio Paixão Bano, participated, on October 9^th and 10^th, 2023 in the Public Hearing with the Constitutional Affairs and Justice Committee (Committee A) of the National Parliament, for a preliminary discussion of two law proposals recently submitted by the Government.

The first Law Proposal, approved at the Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers on September 25^th, 2023, aims to carry out the third amendment to Law No. 3/2014, which created the Special Administrative Region of Oe-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA) and created the Special Social Market Economy Zone of Oe-Cusse Ambeno and Ataúro. The aim is to boost national development by establishing a new legal framework for the Special Social Economy and Market Zones, making it possible to expand them to various areas of the national territory apart from Oe-Cusse Ambeno and Ataúro.

With the second Law Proposal, approved at the Council of Ministers meeting on September 19^th, 2023, the Government, as provided for in its Programme, proposes the extinction of the municipality of Ataúro and the creation of a new first-level administrative division, called “Ataúro”, following the definition in Article 5th of the Constitution of the Republic, which grants Ataúro special administrative and economic treatment.