Possibilidades e limites do parlamento Moçambicano face ao processo decisório e de fiscalização da resposta governamental à pandemia da Covid-19 em 2020

Abstract

Legislatures play an important role in developing laws and policies to dealing with emergencies and in carrying out oversight and supervision of the actions initiatives and policies of the executive. However, while recognising the role that parliaments play in parliaments have in democratic decision-making and transparency of responses to crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated that parliaments are marginalised in the crisis response in the crisis response process by concentrating greater power in the hands of the executive. Against this background, it was found that the Mozambican parliament, in addition to not having a significant in addition to not playing a significant role in the Covid- 19 crisis response process, its agenda was completely changed. 19 crisis, its agenda was completely changed, with the reduction and cancellation of various activities. Therefore, this study seeks to analyse the limits and possibilities of the Mozambican parliament in relation to the decision-making process and the oversight of the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis is based on the qualitative method using semi-structured interviews and bibliographical research. The study highlighted that although parliament has made significant efforts in the face of Covid-19. Historically dependent on the Executive, the Mozambican Parliament was not able to quickly put together a strategic response to ensure its main legislative, oversight and legislative, oversight and representational activities vis-à-vis Covid-19, and for this reason, the the parliament failed to ensure democratic transparency in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. response to the Covid-19 pandemic