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The parliamentary group CDS-PP questioned the Government on Saturday if the travel ban during the Dead Faithful weekend excluded travel to attend cultural shows, wanting to know how the central administration justifies this authorization.
In a question addressed to the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, the deputies of the CDS-PP question whether the ban on traveling between municipalities “excludes traveling to attend cultural shows.”
In the document, delivered this Saturday to the Assembly of the Republic, the deputies of the CDS want, “to be true”, to know how the central administration justifies the authorization. “How does the Government justify this authorization to attend shows and, on the other hand, the prohibition to honor the dead, in cemeteries, in the open air and so important for the Portuguese people?”, Question the parliamentarians.
The centrists say they are astonished to see the “supposed exemption from traveling to attend cultural performances”, calling it a “total incongruity”.
“When family gatherings and gatherings with more than five people in public and commercial places are somewhat limited, the CDS believes that it is of the utmost urgency and urgency to obtain a clarification from the Government,” the deputies added.
On Friday, the General Inspection of Cultural Activities (IGAC) said that trips between different municipalities for access to shows must be authorized on the weekend of the Dead Faithful, with the need to present the corresponding ticket or reservation of the place. .
The ban on traveling between different municipalities in the period between 00:00 on October 30 and 23:59 on November 3 is questioned, based on the resolution of the Council of Ministers on Thursday, which thus seeks to avoid risks spread of covid-19 in clusters, motivated by the religious rituals of All Saints Day – marked on the holiday of November 1 – and the Day of the Dead – mentioned on 2.
This prohibition excludes citizens who need to travel between municipalities for professional, student or medical reasons, by justification, but the IGAC inspector general, Luís Silveira Botelho, declared to Lusa: “It is possible to move forward, taking into account the declaration of Thursday Council of Ministers that traveling to access cultural facilities will be among the exceptions ”.
The official warned, however, that the validity of this interpretation is only valid “when the resolution of the Council of Ministers is published, in relation to the period to which it refers”, but believes that, “to confirm that the displacement for access cultural facilities will be one of the exceptions. The title or ticket for access to cultural facilities will be sufficient proof to allow movement between municipalities ”, in the event of inspection by the police authorities.
Luís Silveira Botelho’s analysis contributed to the fact that the Declaration of the State of Calamity expressed in the Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 88-A / 2020, published on October 14, did not undergo “any change in relation to cultural events”.
