The councilors of the opposition in the House of Lisbon are unanimous in their rejection of a Municipal Tourist Fee to accuse, will focus on not only tourists but also about all the Portuguese who live outside the capital. The vice mayor replies that this is not the “goal” of the proposal, while acknowledging that “there are no 100% perfect models.”
With the votes of a socialist majority and vote against PSD, PCP and CDS, the council approved on Wednesday the submission that rate public discussion, during a period which will run until the 3rd of December. Fernando Medina stressed the importance of this procedure, arguing that it “will improve” model that was proposed by the majority. “The goal is not to deliver a fully enclosed solution is to listen to the contributions to improve the proposal,” the Socialist mayor.
The opposition does not hesitate to condemn the creation of a tourist tax, not least because accuse councilors, in the way it was meant only those who live in Lisbon escape it. “Not even from the point of view of nomenclature is accurate,” said Social Democrat Anthony Prôa, who believes that “the rate as it was not designed to serve the purposes for which it was announced.”
Councilman says a “huge mess” and a “huge fallout” in the way most lead in this case and says that the best solution would be the camera “back off”. “If you impose a fee must find the appropriate arguments and seek greater consensus” concludes Anthony Prôa.
But the PCP says that if the rate that will be charged upon arrival at the airport, what the camera should have done was to require that some of the money already today are applied to those who use that infrastructure should revert to the municipality. As for overnights, Councilman Carlos Moura recalls that “there are countless people who have to stay overnight in Lisbon and we are not tourists,” particularly to monitor hospitalized patients, so “do not understand how they are called to participate in the politics of tourism development in city. “
Finally, the CDS says is” violently opposed “the creation of a tourist tax. Or rather, the “three rates”, underlines João Gonçalves Pereira, remembering that one euro will be charged to those who enter the city by plane, one euro whom come by boat and a Euro who stay overnight in a hotel unit.
The centrist councilor regrets that no reply to the 34 questions directed to Anthony Costa on the subject (and to which you have said that it would respond in writing without advance when) and accuses the camera had not done a ” measurable assessment of the impacts of this measure, “says João Gonçalves Pereira rates in question are” disconnected from the real economy “and represent” an attack “to the tourism sector.
The opposition parties also do not see with good see the creation of the Municipal Civil Protection Fee, the executive has said it will not penalize the citizens, since they will not pay the fee Conservation Sewage exists today. This argument is unconvincing Councilman CDS, which believes that with this “lost an opportunity to relieve the tax burden on homeowners.”
“There is more than a more skillful way to find recipes the expense of the citizens, “says Anthony Prôa turn. Both the mayor of the PSD as Carlos Moura, PCP, stress that nothing makes you believe that the existence of that fee if go translate into gains in quality service that is already provided here, but the city council budget own resources.
“It was not a charge that flowed from a legal standpoint,” said the Communist councilor, claiming that she “could never fall on the citizens, but on businesses and structures that, from the standpoint of safety and civil protection, could cause problems. ”
At the city council meeting on Wednesday, there was another initiative of the majority against which the councilors PSD, PCP and CDS joined: one that sought the approval of a “proposed assumption by city of Lisbon, the management Carris and Metropolitano de Lisboa by interadministrativo contract signed with the state. “
Particularly critical was the PCP, who accused the majority of” withhold information “in refusing to distribute a set of “studies of operational, financial and legal” whose existence is mentioned in the proposal signed by António Costa. “It is unacceptable and unjustifiable,” said John Ferreira.
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