democratic state based on the rule of law against violent or organised crime
and other types of threats or risks, with respect for the Constitution, the laws
and any international conventions to which Angola may be a party..
2. The preservation of state security shall include the institutional elements of
the state intelligence and security bodies.
3. The organisation and functioning of the preservation of state security shall be
established by law.
Article 212
(State intelligence and security bodies)
1. The state intelligence and security bodies shall be entrusted with producing
intelligence and analysis and adopting state intelligence and security
measures required to preserve the democratic state based on the rule of law
and public peace.
2. The law shall regulate the organisation, functioning and oversight of the
intelligence and security services.
TITLE VI
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Article 213
(Autonomous local government bodies)
1. The democratic organisation of the state at local level shall be structured on
the basis of the principle of political and administrative decentralisation,
which shall include forms of local government organisation, under the terms
of this Constitution.
2. The forms of local government organisation shall include local authorities,
the institutions of the traditional authorities and other specific forms of
citizen participation, under the terms of the law.
Article 214
(Principle of local autonomy)
1. Local autonomy shall include the right and effective capacity of the local
authorities to manage and issue regulations for local public matters, under the
terms of the Constitution and the law, on their own account and in the
interests of the respective local populations.
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