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The president of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, considered this Monday that the state of emergency in Portugal “should already be decreed”, taking into account the possible lack of response from the National Health Service.
“I think, at this point, the state of emergency should have been decreed, because the response capacity of the National Health Service may be at risk, particularly in intensive care ”, he said, on the sidelines of a visit to an artist’s studio in Funchal. For Miguel Albuquerque (PSD), “it is very important to take measures, not to slow down the economy, to mitigate risks.”
In this regard, Albuquerque announced that the Regional Government, of the PSD / CDS-PP coalition, will announce new measures to “prevent, prevent and reduce the risk of local infections” in the field of the Covid-19 pandemic in the archipelago next Wednesday . market.
“What happened this weekend will not be repeated for sure [ajuntamentos de jovens em determinados locais da noite do Funchal], There were people who think that this is a joke, everything will be put in order, “he said.
The Regional Government added, will act in favor of the tourism sector because “the month of November will not be easy” with the ban on Thursday from the United Kingdom to travel and the containment and confinement of Germany.
The Prime Minister, António Costa, proposed this Monday to the President of the Republic that a state of emergency be decreed “with a preventive nature” to “eliminate doubts” about the Government’s action to protect citizens in relation to the Covid pandemic. -19. This position of the executive was transmitted by António Costa at the end of an audience with the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Belém Palace, which lasted 50 minutes, instead of the 30 minutes initially planned.
“The Government has presented to the President of the Republic the proposal to declare a state of emergency with an essentially preventive character in order to eliminate legal doubts on four fundamental dimensions,” declared the Prime Minister.
António Costa said that there can be no doubt about “the possibility of the Government imposing limitations on freedom of movement, provided that it is justified, between different areas of the territory, at certain times of the day or at certain times of the week.”
“Even on Saturday, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected two precautionary measures that had been raised. It is important that there be a legal strengthening of this capacity of the Government, since, in the case of a pandemic, in which the fundamental thing is to avoid contacts between people and prevent agglomerations, the use of limiting freedom of movement will be frequent ”, he justified .
