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The Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, on Tuesday criticized the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP), saying it was not up to this entity to "politically promise an agreement with which the municipalities were not in agreement ". "
" It was not up to the ANMP to engage politically on an agreement with which the municipalities did not agree. It's a political issue, it's not a legal problem. "
The Porto Chamber of Commerce approved this Tuesday, which was approved by the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce of Porto, with the dissident votes of the PS and PSD, the mayor's motion to dissociate the municipality from the decisions of the 39; ANMP, due to the decentralization agreement concluded with the government
addressing journalists at the Palácio de Belém, Lisbon, where Received by the President of the Republic, Rui Moreira criticized the way whose decentralization of municipal powers is underway and said that "decentralization will be a political decision only, to which the competent services must respond." "To have decentralization requires political will, It must be the decisions of the politicians, and then the technical services and the administration must fulfill what the politicians decide.
One of the examples mentioned by the head of the Municipal Executive of Porto is the transition from the headquarters of Infarmed to the north of the country, considering that it "is a strange process." Rui Moreira said that he was facing "a political position of the government to decentralize the Infarmed" and that "of course, the Mayor of Porto should give all the help that Infarmed has all the conditions for settling "in the
Mayor pointed out that" apparently, what resulted from this situation was a set of administrative constraints "and that, in this way, the country" will never decentralize " anything, "There is no power". This process is not done "by transmitting only tasks to local authorities, and Infarmed is the paradigmatic example of what we fear with this whole package of decentralization."
Another criticism made by the mayor of Porto, with the visas of the Court of Auditors, which "delay" and do not allow municipalities to carry out the work with which they undertake, within the time limits, a question "which would be enough to simplify".
Asked about the departure of the ANMP municipality, Rui Moreira replied that it is an "open" question and that the motion approved "is not a retreat," he said. is a first step ". "We must begin by telling the ANMP that we do not feel represented, that we do not understand that it can, without consulting us, make commitments for us," he said
"All the municipalities understood the basics of decentralization," he added, adding that "it would be good for us to resume this path and not look for a simple way to reach an agreement with the PSD, which gave the government carte blanche with ANMP to reach an agreement in which the principles would be defended. [na cimeira] in Sintra, which had been announced with the pump and the circumstances, were not there contemplated. However, he said that he did not intend to request a hearing with the Prime Minister to discuss the issue.
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