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Draft Resolution No. 55 /XI
It recommends the Government to regulate the application of the status of
social partner
It comes from the last century the tradition of creating Associations for togetherness and conjugation of
efforts and activities of diverse layers of populations, crafts, classes and others
social groups who thus sought and seek to organize themselves and condition the medium in
who live, participating in solving problems, responding to yearning and helping the
create a fairer and more participative society.
The Associations are, today, indispensable agents in the defence, preservation and the
promotion of popular culture, literature, theatre, music, folklore, the
craftsmanship and heritage-material and immaterial-in general. In the same way, they promote the
literacy and teaching, combining wills for the realization of projects.
The Associations promote access to sports practice and the appropriate fruition of the times
free. They support the state-central and local-on these fronts and the mobilization of populations
for the resolution of their expectations in health, teaching and other sectors of life
social and economic.
They participate in local power through Municipal Councils and other structures.
With correct technical and financial support and continued, all this vast movement
associative will create even more impairable dynamics in populations, promoting a
culture of citizenship and desirable participation in a developed democracy of the Century
XXI.
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Thus, the Popular Associative Movement is creditor of the serious attention of all who if
concern about a real democratization of our communal living.
It easily understands that the associations are a privileged space in which one can
express solidarity and whether they can experiment with new answers, while
important factors of transformation and social innovation. It is in the associations that run
of the most relevant common, collective and social-root projects. It is, still, in the
associations that take on the exercise of democracy, if they assert local identities and
emerge different forms of cultural expression.
The State therefore has an obligation to create synergies by executing policies and measures in
articulation with the associative movement, while naturally respecting its autonomy.
However, the popular associative movement, pese though it assert itself on the everyday as
a universe of participation, of volunteering and of training for democracy, has had
over the times by the state, a clearly loss-making face recognition
to the merited. Proof of this is the absence of regulation of Law No. 34/2003, of the
Recognition and Valorization of the Popular Associative Movement.
Law 34/2003 of August 22, versa on the recognition and valorisation of the
popular associative movement, conferring with the Portuguese associative movement the
status of a social partner.
According to the diploma, the Government should regulate the application of partner status
social within 120 days of the entry into force of the law. However, inexplicably, such
has not happened yet.
The said Act also provides for the responsibility of the Government to promote the
surveying, by municipality, of the associations of culture, recreation, sport, social and
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juvenile, progressively perfecting the mechanisms of technical support-financial to
its activities.
In these terms, the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democratic Party, by presenting the
this recommendation to the Government, intends for the law to be complied with, in particular,
with the regulation and application of the status of social partner to the movement
popular associative.
Thus, in accordance with Article 156 (b) of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic
and point (b) of Rule 4 (1) of the Rules, the Assembly of the Republic resolves
recommend to the Government to proceed to the urgent regulation of the application of the
status as a social partner to the popular associative movement, as provided for by the Law
34/2003, of August 22.
Assembly of the Republic, January 15, 2010
The Deputies of the PSD