The social-democratic presidents of the chambers of Mação, Vasco Estrela, and Cadaval, José Bernardo Nunes, will leave the local authorities when they reach the term limit to become vice-presidents of the CCDR of the Center and Lisbon, respectively.
For the Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR) of the North, former PSD deputy Paulo Ramalho was appointed vice-president, while for Alentejo former CCDR president Roberto Grilo was chosen.
The appointments come after the current Government decided to give the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, José Manuel Fernandes, superintendence powers in this area through a vice-president in each commission, who will be in charge of the departments dedicated to agriculture, rural development and fisheries.
For CCDR-Centro, Vasco Estrela was chosen, who is serving his third and final term as president of the Chamber of Mação, in the district of Santarém, a social democratic activist and a lawyer by training.
In the same situation is the president of Cadaval City Council, José Bernardo Nunes, president of the PSD in the West area, appointed vice-president of the CCDR of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (LVT).
Paulo Ramalho, nominated for CCDR-Norte, is a councilor at the Maia City Council, a lawyer, and as a deputy he was part of permanent Agriculture and Fisheries committees.
Economist Roberto Grilo returns to CCDR-Alentejo, which he presided over between 2015 and 2020, having been the defeated candidate in the first elections for the body, on October 13, 2020, when he assumed an independent candidacy, despite his activism in the PSD.
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All of these appointments received a positive opinion from the Recruitment and Selection Committee for Public Administration (CReSAP).
The organization of the CCDR was changed on December 6, to allow the appointment, by the Minister of Agriculture, of vice-presidents who will be in charge of the regional departments of agriculture, rural development and fisheries.
With this measure, the government wants the central administration to regain control over this area, after the integration of the former regional Agriculture and Fisheries departments into the CCDR, following the restructuring of regional commissions, in 2023.
With this restructuring, the CCDR received powers of peripheral services of the direct and indirect administration of the State in different areas of governance, to facilitate their coordination, “with a view to harmonious regional development”, including duties of the previous regional directorates of Agriculture and Fisheries.
As a result, the Government argued, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries was “lacked the capacity to intervene in the territory, given that his participation in the supervision of the CCDR was not foreseen, where the departments of agriculture and fisheries are located on a regional or sub-national scale. -regional”.
With the entry into office of the new vice-presidents, the minister now has “the powers of superintendence and supervision in the area” in each CCDR.
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