Parliament this Friday unanimously approved a framework law setting out the criteria for villages to obtain town and city titles.
The proposal, from the PS, had already been generally approved in the previous legislature, but the process went back to the beginning, after the fall of the previous cabinet in 2021.
The diploma will now be discussed in the specialism at the Commission for Public Administration, Spatial Planning and Local Administration.
The need for a framework law for the allocation of the settlement category is justified by a legal loophole in this respect, as the previous settlement category law, of 1982, was repealed during the 2012 administrative reform.
The law under discussion aims to update the criteria for the classification of places as town and city and legitimize the aspirations of the population to see the evolution of their territory, their identity features, their equipment and local development recognized , defines the proposal.
The law aims to give villages that meet the criteria the opportunity to start the process of appointing themselves as a village or city.
Currently, the country has 159 settlements with the designation of city and 581 with the category of village.
Source: DN
