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Recommends To The Government To Regulate The Social Partner Status

Original Language Title: Recomenda ao Governo a regulamentação da aplicação do estatuto de parceiro social

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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