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Anafre insisted on Saturday that revising the Local Finance Law (LFL) is an 'absolute priority' to secure a progressive increase in these parishes' share of State taxes, from 2.5% to 5% over five years. In a document titled 'General Lines of Action 2026/2030', presented at the Congress of the National Association of ...
The National Association of Parish Councils (Anafre) begins a new term focused on reviewing the local finance law and the statute governing local elected officials. The move signals an agenda to address budgetary frameworks, state transfers and financial autonomy for parish councils, and to clarify the legal status, duties and protections of elected representatives — potentially prompting legislative reform with practical implications for local governance and service delivery.
The newly elected leadership of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP) has formally presented its congress resolutions to the Government, raising detailed concerns about the draft law on local finances and the wider decentralisation process. The ANMP is seeking clarifications and safeguards to protect municipal budgets and competences, clearer arrangements for funding decentralisation, and secure access for municipalities to European funds under the next EU programming framework.
The leadership formally presented to the Government the main resolutions that municipal leaders approved at a congress.
This article is part of the 17th edition of ECO magazine. The long-standing struggle of local authorities for a new Local Finance Law (LFL) that would strengthen their financial capacity without jeopardising the sustainability of municipal accounts continues. The start of negotiations in 2023 with the then António Costa government gave them some ...
