O município, as empresas privadas e o exercício de cidadania na gestão dos serviços públicos: caso dos serviços de remoção e tratamento do lixo no Município de Maputo

Abstract

The Municipality Private companies and the exercise of citizenship in the Management of Public Services ”- The case of Waste Removal and Treatment Services in the Municipality of Maputo, is the theme of this work whose objectives are related to the analysis of the contractual terms between the Maputo Municipal Council (CMCM) and private companies (QUIMILAR and INTERWASTE), for the provision of public services (referring to the Waste Removal Service - solid waste), and see how these contractual obligations ensured the obligations the exercise of citizenship (understood as citizen involvement / participation). The dimensions of analysis to respond to this objective were Municipal Management; the legal framework for the conclusion of contracts between CMCM and QUIMILAR and INTERWASTE Companies; and citizen / citizen participation. The hypotheses raised to answer these questions maintained that the contractual terms between CMCM and private companies, violated a set of legal rules that ended up distorting the exercise of citizenship. The reason for this fact derives from the municipal management model in force at CMCM, which is also responsible for the current problems of waste in the Municipality of Maputo. These premises were corroborated by the demonstration of a deficient model of municipal management in force at the CMCM, a deficiency that was proven from the poor financial management of municipal revenues. Other data that corroborate the hypotheses are: the great distance between the CMCM and the citizens; the illegality of the signing of contracts and the actions of private companies; all this allied to the non-observance of the State Administrative Guardianship, and in general, a low level of confrontation by the citizens in the control of the Municipal Management.