Lisbon City Council decided yesterday to cancel the tender for rehabilitation of the Second Ring Road after detecting conflicts of interest
Alderman CDS-PP of Lisbon, João Gonçalves Pereira, today advised the municipality to be “cautious” about the cancellation of the tender for the restoration of the Second Ring Road, as “treat only and only evidence”.
Counseling “prudence” to the municipal executive socialist majority, the councilor of the CDS-PP has stressed that “the short statement of the President of the Lisbon Chamber yesterday [Friday] suggests something very serious, and hence CDS expects the President of the Chamber, Dr. Fernando Medina, is supported properly by the legal department of the municipality. “
” There is a suspicion mantle released about a particular company in concrete mantle suspicion that based only on evidence which shows, in my view, some daring, since they treat only and only evidence, “pointed Gonçalves Pereira, told Lusa.
the House Municipal Lisbon canceled the tender for the redevelopment of the Second Ring Road and opened an investigation to ascertain the existence of any “conflict of interest” by a designer, announced on Friday the president of the local authority.
Fernando Medina said at a press conference that “these decisions result from the Selection Board have detected evidence of conflict of interest, because the author of the floor design also be manufacturer and supplier of the components used” in the mix bituminous .
the announced decision also suspends “the contract already underway on the intervention in the Second Ring Road, the section between the RALLY node and the Berlin Avenue”, started on July 4, since ” [involved] team is the same, “he added.
the socialist mayor explained that this” was not known to the Lisbon Chamber at the launch of the competition, and it was not possible to exclude the doubt that the even the addict had. “
for the centrist,” Dr. Fernando Medina is not a vigilante or the House has the ability to condemn this or that the practice of a crime, “but” the competent authorities and judicial authorities “.
the councilor cautioned still hope” that will not happen in the future to pay hefty compensation from the Chamber, “considering that” there was no need to have exposed the company “in cause.
“if there is concrete evidence, facts and hard data that indicate the commission of a crime, CDS monitor the Socialist Party and the House in full, to send [the case] to the competent authorities to do justice, “he said.
So the CDS” send on Monday a request for information in writing to the Speaker of the House, asking the jury report [...], the complaints have been lodged by competitors and any complaints that have come to the Chamber, “to be able to make an assessment.
João Gonçalves Pereira also rejected the” way the mayor announced and caught by surprise what are political forces with a mandate from voters to be represented in the House, “as it” was not given a single word prior, or previous information on this issue. “
After much pleading, of Lisbon advanced in early July with the first phase of the rehabilitation works of the Second Ring Road, between the section of the Rules of node Lisbon Artillery (RALLY) and Berlin Avenue parish of Groves.
the work was finished early October and, after these works, budgeted at 750,000 euros, the second contract should begin, valued at 9.5 million in about ten kilometers between the Buraca node and the airport.
the project included the upgrading of the road, through the floor of the renovation, replacement of street lighting, drainage system repair and “reducing the number of crossovers,” said the authority.
the intervention also aimed afforestation and expansion of the central reservation, renewal of signs, creating a vehicle restraint system and introduction of security guards.
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