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The last meeting of the Almada City Council, on Monday, lasted more than four hours, but it was an intervention of just a few minutes in the social neighborhoods that opened a new controversy with the socialist Inês de Medeiros. The mayor of Almada explained that the municipality’s housing policy aims to avoid “any ghetto” when she guaranteed that she did not mind living in a social neighborhood for the sake of sight. “I myself, tomorrow, would live in Bairro Amarelo with that wonderful view,” said the socialist mayor, after guaranteeing that Almada “has the privilege of having social premises in wonderful spaces with an enviable view.”
The mayor’s statements have generated several criticisms. Joana Mortágua, councilor of the Câmara de Almada, was one of the first to share the video with the intervention of Inês de Medeiros and criticize the position of the socialist.
“The mayor of Almada thinks that the residents of the social neighborhoods are privileged by the ‘vista-rio’ and even says that she did not mind moving to Bairro Amarelo. This while justifying the approval of a 5-star hotel in Porto Brandão. Any comment is redundant, “wrote the socialist deputy on social networks.
Lack of notion and respect Miguel Tiago, a former PCP deputy; He considered, in social networks, that the statement made by the mayor of Almada “is serious.” For the former communist deputy, she is “a policy in charge of announcing that this land is not deserved by those who live there, she is a mayor announcing that this land is for her class, her people, without the people who are there.”
On the PSD side, Duarte Marques wrote on his Facebook page that Inês de Medeiros showed a lack of respect for the residents of the social neighborhoods. “This is not very different from what is said about ‘papayas that live on subsidies. Imagine what it would be if you were someone else, or someone else, to say this. That is the lack of notion and respect that caviar of the left represents well, ”said the Social Democratic deputy.
The controversy arose from the discussion on the “simplified alteration of the National Ecological Reserve in Porto Brandão”. The proposal that provides for the construction of a tourist complex was approved only with criticism from the Bloco de Esquerda. Councilor Luís Filipe Pereira defended that “projects of this nature promote the elite of the locals” and preferred that the municipality bet on “projects aimed at people.” CDU and PSD supported the proposal. The social democrat Miguel Salvado even defended that the project “will improve that area and create a dynamic around it.”
The case of trips to Paris This is not the first controversy with the socialist mayor. Inês de Medeiros entered politics at the invitation of José Sócrates in 2009, and as soon as she arrived in Parliament she was criticized for the case of the trips to Paris. Inês de Medeiros lived in Paris and, despite being elected by the Lisbon circle, there was the possibility that Parliament would pay for part of the weekly trip.
The then socialist deputy ended up dispensing with the co-participation with criticism of those who “want to transform politics into a permanent demagogic circus.”
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