Guinea-Bissau’s prime minister, Geraldo Martins, said this Sunday that his government was set up “for four years” and that campaign promises “must be kept.”
“This will be a legislative government, a government for four years, and therefore all the campaign promises made must be fulfilled,” he said at the inauguration of 18 ministers and 15 state secretaries of the new executive branch.
Thus, according to Geraldo Martins, the time frame for fulfilling the promises made during the campaign is not “six months, not a year, but four years.”
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Indira Cabral Embalu did not attend the opening ceremony.
The new government is the result of the Plataforma de Aliança Inclusiva (PAI)-Terra Ranka coalition, led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which won the June legislative elections with a majority vote, managing to win 54 out of 102 MPs.
After winning legislative elections, the coalition signed parliamentary and government advocacy agreements with the Party of Social Renewal (PRS) and the Workers’ Party of Guinea (PTG), which are also part of the new executive branch.
“The Guineans can count on the government to try to solve their problems,” the prime minister said, stressing that the executive branch knows “what are the expectations” and “the problems of the population.”
According to Geraldo Martins, the public wants the government to help sell cashews, control the prices of basic foods, get public schools back to normal, and improve the delivery of health services and primary health care, in addition to expanding the supply of drinking water. and the availability of electricity in key locations and wherever possible.
These are the priorities of the emergency program, which will be “the focus of leadership in the first six months,” he assured.
However, according to the Prime Minister, in parallel with the emergency program, the management program will be submitted for approval by the National People’s Congress.
The governance program, he said, will be based on the strategic and operational plan of Terra Ranka and on the electoral program of the PAI-Terra Ranka coalition.
The strategic plan covers six axes: reform and modernization of the state, economic growth and poverty reduction, restarting the country’s manufacturing sector and infrastructure, strengthening human resources, foreign policy and biodiversity conservation.
“All these axes will now be transferred to the government program with detailed measures and a timetable for implementation,” he said, adding that “priority will be given to those measures and directions that are priority.”
“Most importantly, at the end of the legislature, we will be able to fulfill the campaign promise we made to the Guinean people,” he said.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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