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“The government is actually
think about what we need to do for the to lessen its dependency on gaming.
using resources to buy public
next four or five years.” “But how can we diversify our econ-
Eilo Yu stresses that officials have to omy? We have talked for so many years
political actions and to stop
start listening to the people on the prob- about this but we don’t have any conclu-
people from taking to the
lems that affect them directly. As an exam- sion yet, so how can we do it if we don´t
streets, but this is not a long
ple he cites last year’s consultative paper have a plan?” he asks.
term strategy and it will have
on urban planning in Macau, adding that Public participation and institutional
similar public opinion surveys should be and economic reform are, in Eilo Yu’s opin-
to improve its institutions carried out on matters like public health, ion, the main ingredients for a process of
in order to allow public
education and transport systems. transformation that Macau must undergo.
participation in the regime”
The economy is not forgotten and For now, the city remains in a wait-and-
Eilo Yu considers Macau should, as many see mode, a situation which inevitably must
are already saying, diversify its economy come to an end. Over to the new team.
“We can observe the case of Hong
Kong where in the past they tried to avoid
establishing political parties but after the
democratic forces made the decision, they
had to do it, so I don’t see why this should
be impossible in Macau,” he adds.
Like everywhere in the world, Macau
is also going through fundamental chang-
es and, in Yu´s opinion, any government
should be attentive and able to observe
these changes in order to come up with
solutions for new emerging problems.
People’s interests are very diversified
these days, he says. A job and a salary
are no longer the be all and end all and
quality of life is now a new demand. “Be-
cause of these diversified public interests,
the government can not use an old sys-
tem”. If the government cannot establish
the institutions that can accommodate or
integrate these various interests, it will
generate conflict and that will be a dis-
aster, “says Yu.
Priorities
Eilo Yu places administrative reform
at the top of the list of priorities for the next
government, saying that the existing lack of
coordination among different departments
is the major problem in this sector.
Political reform comes second for
the professor, who explains: “I am not
just talking about direct elections, I am
talking about how to allow public input
and, at the same time, how to communi-
cate with the people.”
For Yu, the government has not yet
opened the regime to allow more public
participation, and he considers that more
consultation papers and more public fo-
rums should be organised.
Putting an end to the “patronage
strategy” should be another priority of
the new government: “patronage cannot
be a long term plan, the government has
to start strategic planning and it must
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