The PS/Lisbon announced this Wednesday that it will abstain from voting on the Municipal Activities and Budget Plan for 2025, making the document viable out of a “sense of responsibility”, but highlighting that it does not mean a “blank check” to Carlos Moedas.
“The Municipal Political Commission of the PS/Lisbon approved the Secretariat’s proposal so that, in voting on the Activity Plan and Municipal Budget for 2025, the PS abstains”, he announced, in a statement, highlighting that “it sends the sense of responsibility that the Socialist Party puts the current interests of the city above any party convenience.”
The Activity Plan and Municipal Budget for 2025 are discussed and voted on on Thursday, in a private meeting of the municipal executive.
In the same note, the PS/Lisbon highlighted that its abstention, which makes the document viable, “does not mean, however, a blank check” given to the president of the Chamber, but rather to not give Carlos Moedas “any alibi for, more once, not fulfilling the promises he made”.
The socialists considered that the plan and budget for 2025 presented by Carlos Moedas “is once again not a good budget, with priorities that are not those of Lisbon or those of Lisbon”, and that the document does not reflect “any ambition or outline of solutions for the city’s many problems”, stressing that this “would never be a Socialist Party budget”.
The PS/Lisbon will therefore make the budget viable, as it has done in recent years, although it considers it “easier to find arguments to vote against”, highlighting the stalled housing projects, the lack of investment in social facilities, the degradation of public spaces, or the growing problem with garbage.
“Carlos Moedas’ priorities are propaganda actions and not the people of Lisbon”, accused the socialists.
PS/Lisbon also said that Carlos Moedas will leave a city “without work and without direction”, pointing the blame at the opposition, instead of assuming “the disastrous results of his governance”.
“With the exception of his own image, Carlos Moedas was unable to build anything”, stressed the socialists.
Representing the PSD/CDS-PP leadership in the Lisbon City Council, Anacoreta Correia presented on the 13th a municipal budget proposal of 1,359 million euros for 2025, slightly higher than the 1,303 million predicted for this year.
This is the last municipal budget of this mandate (2021-2025), proposed by the PSD/CDS-PP management, under the presidency of Carlos Moedas (PSD), who governs Lisbon without an absolute majority. If approved, it will be implemented in a municipal election year.
The first three budgets of the PSD/CDS-PP leadership were approved thanks to the abstention of the PS, and the rest of the opposition – PCP, BE, Livre and Cidadãos Por Lisboa (elected by the PS/Livre coalition) – voted against.
Currently, the executive of the Lisbon Chamber, which is made up of 17 members, includes seven elected members of the “Novos Tempos” coalition (PSD/CDS-PP/MPT/PPM/Aliança) – who are the only ones with assigned responsibilities and who govern without absolute majority – three from the PS, two from the PCP, three from Cidadãos Por Lisboa (elected by the PS/Livre coalition), one from Livre and one from BE.
Source: www.jornaldenegocios.pt
