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) Government’s Audit Office.
2. It is further incumbent upon the Deputy Prime Minister for the Coordination of Affairs
relating to the Administration of the State:
a) to oversee the management of the ongoing review of processes at Ministries, namely
as regards procurement and tendering;
b) to ensure supervision of the implementation of projects regarding the State’s physical
infrastructures;
c) to ensure good inter-ministerial coordination;
d) to coordinate activities with the Secretariat aimed at establishing the Civil Service
Commission;
e) to coordinate the decentralization process;
f) to ensure cooperation with the Anti-Corruption Commission.
3. The Deputy Prime Minister for the Coordination of Affairs relating to the Administration of
the State coordinates the Government in the absences and impediments of the Prime Minister,
whenever designated by the latter.
4. The Deputy Prime Minister for the Coordination of Affairs relating to the Administration of
the State shall take part in coordination meetings every fortnight. Such meetings shall be
convened and presided over by the Prime Minister and shall take place on Tuesdays, before the
Council of Ministers meets.”
Source: Article 7-A of the Decree-Law 07/2007 of 5 September 2007 Approving the Organic Structure of
the IV Constitutional Government, amended by Decree-laws 05/2008, 26/2008, 37/2008, 14/2009,
11/2010 and 15/2010
MECHANISM OF ACCOUNTABILITY
“The Government features two Deputy Prime Minister, who depends directly from the Prime
Minister and who follows him in the hierarchy.”
Source: Article 2 of the Decree-Law 07/2007 of 5 September 2007 Approving the Organic Structure of the
IV Constitutional Government, amended by Decree-laws 05/2008, 26/2008, 37/2008, 14/2009, 11/2010
and 15/2010
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Details regarding organizational structure are not specified in the Decree-law 07/2007 of 5
September 2007 approving the Organic Structure of the IV Constitutional Government,
amended by Decree-laws 5/2008, 26/2008, 37/2008, 14/2009, 11/2010 and 15/2010
STAFFING PROFILE
[Included in overall numbers presented under section 2.1]
2009 STATE BUDGET APPROVED 33 : USD 802,000
2010 STATE BUDGET APPROVED 34 : USD 2,225,000
2011 STATE BUDGET APPROVED: [no allocation]
33 Cabinet of the Second Deputy Prime Minister
34 Cabinet of the Deputy Prime-Ministers (no separate expenditure is given in the 2010 General State
Budget).
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