Passes are cheap or free only the 1 of February – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

Councilman centrist accused Fernando Medina of propaganda for the three days of the new year not yet being available. President of the Chamber says that he never undertook with day 1

from 1 January 2017, the Rail should pass under the jurisdiction of the Government to the Municipal Chamber of Lisbon and was to that extent that Fernando Medina announced that in the next year, in addition to other new features, there would be discounts on some passes and other free. Only that the three days of the new year these passes are not yet available, has advanced to the TSF, radio in which the councillor of CDS accused the mayor of “propaganda. However, Fernando Medina has already clarified that I never announced a date for the beginning of the discounts, what is now: 1 February.

The 21 of November, the mayor of Lisbon announced free passes for all children up to 12 years and discounts for the elderly, among other novelties for 2017 and the following years.

Today, in statements to the TSF, the councillor of the CDS in the city of Lisbon, João Gonçalves Pereira, considered that the announcement of Fernando Medina was “propaganda”, because these passes were not yet available, despite the proximity of the 1 January 2017.

“what took place, and the locals will see this as from the 1st day of January, is that there was a patranha of the part of the lord mayor of Lisbon Fernando Medina, sponsored by the prime minister António Costa,” he argued.

The president of the municipality explained, however, in statements to the same radio, they never announced a date for the beginning of the discounts, and that only if committed as this would happen at the beginning of the year.

“For technical issues the new tariffs come in force on the 1st of February,” announced now. “It was the adaptation of the system to these measures come as other measures that will come into force over the three years of the development of the operation,” he added, arguing that, in the past, “the CDS has been an active agent in the city and was complicit in the country of an attempt of destruction of public transport in the city of Lisbon”

The passage of the management of the Rail for the city of Lisbon is one of the issues that the president of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has yet to ship. According to official source of Bethlehem, the degree of the Rails “is to be analyzed with care, as all of the other”. Today it can be known the result of this analysis. The decree-law that transfers to the municipality of Lisbon, the public service of the bus company and the electrical was approved on Thursday of last week in the Council of Ministers, and only after enacted will be the consummation of that transfer, that the Government and the city of Lisbon had pointed out to 1 January 2017.

he spoke to the Lusa source of the Camera may result in a delay in the transfer of the contractual position held by the State to the municipality, due to the legal procedures that are ongoing, to the account of promulgation.