Chan Chak Mo fears impact of gov’t changes

Lawmaker Chan Chak Mo fears that changes to the government’s team of secretaries in the Chief Executive’s next term will have an impact upon ongoing legislative work, Radio Macau reported.
Nevertheless, Chan Chak Mo, who also serves as president of the Legislative Assembly’s 2nd Standing Committee, believes that discussion mechanisms with Macau’s government will not be harmed or altered with the new team of secretaries.
The AL Standing Committees commenced their work for this legal year yesterday, and are now analyzing legislation related to the prevention of corruption within external trade. Chan Chak Mo said that the bill is not too complex, but that with changes to the government’s team, he hopes that they will be able to table the legislation within the next two months.
If these two months are not enough for the Committee to elaborate and gather its opinions, Chan said they would have to further discuss with the government on how to proceed.
He added that they have to coordinate better with the government and the president of the Legislative Assembly to see if they can speed up the process of analyzing this particular law. In addition to perfecting the drafting, the lawmaker said that some ideas in the document needed to be further clarified. He stressed that there aren’t many doubts or issues arousing from this legislation. For instance, lawmakers will be suggesting the clarification of a few concepts in this law such as public enterprises.