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The mayor of Porto will propose on August 24 the departure of the municipal council of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP) for having considered "the agreement concluded with the government on the decentralization" unacceptable
"It is a decision I will take at the meeting of July 24 and then, if approved, as I hope, I will bring it to the municipal assembly," said Rui Moreira in statements to the agency Lusa [19659002] According to the mayor, in question is "what seems to have been an agreement" – which he claims to have been informed "by the media" – between l & # ANMP and the government, in the context of the transfer of powers to municipalities an agreement that "does not take into account the legitimate concerns defended by these municipalities and metropolitan areas"
"He gave us four days to endorse a set of transfers of skills and resources that we could hardly count but, in a first count, we verified that it does not correspond to what was approved , interesting this week,
Amounts insufficient
According to the mayor – who has already expressed his position in a letter sent Friday Manuel Machado – "in the case of housing, the amounts are certainly insufficient" , and that "in the case of education and health also seem inadequate", while that "the least in the inkwell. "
" Then there were other fundamental issues that were a requirement, such as the transfer to the municipalities of the buildings that we are going to store and maintain, namely the park "
emphasizing that". " there is a set of basic conditions that had been planned and that the government knew "- the subject was discussed in March in a" summit with pomp and circumstance in Sintra, with 35 autarcs I do not know how many ministers , the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic ", recalls – Rui Moreira does not agree that" suddenly, the ANMP intends to make an agreement that subverts the principles defended by the metropolitan areas "and" Suddenly, the National Association of Municipalities, by making a clean sweep of this, accepts an agreement that, in our opinion, is absolutely unacceptable, "he added, adding," With all the legitimacy of the National Association of Municipalities, we do not want to give them a power of attorney to negotiate for us and, therefore, we understand that for the Municipality of Porto, it makes no sense to maintain negotiations with the Government "In a letter sent e to Manuel Machado, to which the & # 39; Lusa had access Moreira argues that "the municipality of Porto do not confuse decentralization with the Portuguese government. " with the delegation of powers" and "does not accept that they are made without just consideration."
For the Mayor of Porto, the agreement signed between the ANMP and the government "accuses the local power and accentuates"
In the motion of the CDU approved unanimously at the last meeting of the Executive of the House of Porto, it it is necessary that the transfer of competences to the municipalities "should have as priority the satisfaction of the legitimate rights and the equitable waitings of the populations" and "contribute to mitigate the social and territorial contingencies and the inequalities".
an affirmation of "concern over the transfer of powers of mere execution, the maintenance of decision-making power, ultimately, in the government and central administration and the generalization of effective forms of guardianship with corrosion and destruction progressive autonomy of local power. "
The motion also requires that "any new transfer of powers and competencies be accompanied by the proven guarantee of endowment of local authorities with the means indispensable to their full exercise, present and future." [19659015] (function (d, s, id)
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