the signing of The Memorandum between the municipality of Lisbon (CML), the Government and the Rails, which took place on the morning of Monday, is being criticized by the opposition the city council, which criticizes not have been informed of the details of the decision. The fact that the Metro does not be also municipalizado is another of the weaknesses pointed out.
In a statement, the PCP/Lisbon considered it "unacceptable" that the councillors and the deputies to the municipal only had known of the existence of the memo when they were invited to the signing ceremony. They say that last Thursday, November 17th, when they questioned the president of the CML about the memo, Fernando Medina, "indicated does not exist yet agreed text". Therefore, the CFP is now considered "inadmissible, on the one hand, that the management of PS in the CML to announce the signing of a memo of this importance in the absence of even an agreed text, and on the other, to sign a memorandum without having the consideration and decision of the municipal organs, addressing it for ratification later in the CML and AML". And it states that the case revealed a "disregard for the elected municipal and by the democratic standards".
“Good sense prevailed over bigotry, ideological”, says Costa on the Rails
The press release also calls attention to the fact that the transport service does not operate only within the limits of the municipality of Lisbon, so you can’t "be managed taking into account only the interests of capital, forgetting all those working in, or moving to Lisbon, have out-of-town the your point of origin or destination".
The communist criticism to the municipalization of the Rails must also be the fear that if you open a path to “a later concession of public transport to private".
"The modernization, maintenance, management of employees are examples of areas in which the Municipal council may not give answer, for many ‘pillows’ financial that may be to encompass this reality. The operating costs are alone a amount of funding unaffordable by any municipality," said the PCP/Lisbon, stressing that it will continue to fight "for the maintenance of the Rails in the sphere of the State Business Sector, and the allocation, based on the State Budget, of the resources needed to maintain a company that has to provide a quality service to clients and play a strategic role in the economy of the city, the region and the Country."
For your time, João Gonçalves Pereira, councillor of the CDS-PP in the municipality of lisbon, denounced the "opacity” of this process: "We’re a little over a month of the Rails to pass to the municipality and the councillors have no knowledge of the terms of the agreement, who is going to pay all this good news, which is that it is the management model". Refused to be present at the signing of a memorandum not to have had knowledge of the agreement that is being concluded: "I Understand what is being done to the contrary, should have been approved in the Camera, and then signed,” said to Lusa. Also mentioned that he hopes that this case is not similar to the "check baby" of former prime minister José Socrates, who, according to said, "it was not received by any family."
António Prôa, one of the aldermen of the PSD in CML, came to show their dissatisfaction, showing that the municipalization of the Rails "ceased to be an instrument of strategy of mobility to be a whim and an instrument of electoral campaign". Goes further and claims that the Chamber should not have assumed the management of the Rail without first "ensure a word determinant” in the definition of the future of the Lisbon metro: "it Is irresponsible to accept the management of the Rail separating it from the subway and there is no one strategy or the hinge joint between the two modes of transport. He further states that the conditions of the agreement not correspond to what the current prime minister demanded while president of the CML: "To those who defended, as the current leaders, the passage joint management of the Rail and the Subway, this passage is amputated from the whole and becomes irrational the scenario intended for the management of mobility in the city ".
Thus, argues that the CML "ruled out, by ideological prejudice, the evaluation of alternative scenarios" that would ensure that it continued to have a word decisive of the solutions found. He further states that "the financial consequences of the responsibility will be too heavy for the municipality. In the long term, who will pay will be the ” lisboetas", at which the agreement turns out to be "a gift"poison.
the chairman of The CML, Fernando Medina, has announced a reinforcement of 250 new buses over the next three years to the city, at an investment of 60 million euros and also free passes for all children up to 12 years (February of 2017), and discounts for the elderly, in addition to the creation of a “network of neighborhoods”, where will be created the careers to turn on the main points of each area (school, market, Health Center, etc.).
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