The government announced on Tuesday that the Carris and the Metropolitan delivered to the Administrative Court a ‘reasoned resolution “in the public interest to lock the suspension of sub contests achieved by the Council of Lisbon.
“Carris and Metro de Lisboa presented today in court a decision based on which state that the deferral of the competition is serious harm to the public interest”, he said in a statement the office of the Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro .
According to the same source, “the contest is no longer suspended and will resume its proceedings in accordance with the law and the contract documents.”
The mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina (PS), said Tuesday on the council that the Lisbon Administrative Court accepted the interim measures filed by the municipality against sub Carris and the Metro and that “competitions are suspended.”
In a statement, Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications confirmed that “the Carris and Metro de Lisboa were actually cited at the end of April, an injunction presented by the City of Lisbon, and finally the suspension of the launch acts of the public tender “.
“The presentation of interim injunction to interrupt an act has the automatic consequence for his immediate suspension from the time the providence of application is received by the entities who practice “, it is noted in the document, stressing that it is” a consequence resulting directly from the law, with no place to any intervention of the court. “
The presentation of reasoned resolution by Carris and the Metro locks the suspension determined by the presentation of the injunction by the municipality, which, however, should be subject to assessment by the court briefly.
“This operation [in sub] in the terms that are designed and advanced is profoundly negative for the city,” he reiterated Fernando Medina, the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon.
The presented interim orders were directed to the suspension of the competition by firms, but the mayor said that the city will bring another action, “on the resolution of the cabinet.”
The mayor reiterated that “the municipality does not give the grantor of power, the right to property companies, as that was not reimbursed in the nationalization process of the Metro and Carris.”
The government approved on 26 February to sub Metro and Carris and, in March, was published in the Official Gazette of the international open tender. Applicants for the sub would have until 14 May to submit proposals.
The Socialist Party gave the Constitutional Court, on April 6, a request for subsequent review of the constitutionality of the government decree providing for the granting of public transportation in Lisbon, Carris and Metro, operation and exploitation by private.
Under the new legal framework for concessions Carris and Metro, the state, in the granting of quality, it is with the powers to set the minimum and maximum fees for using the public service.
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