The result of the extraordinary Municipal Assembly requested the CDU was expected. Only communists and bloquistas voted in favor of their motions, calling for the cancellation of the tender for the “privatization” of the metro and the STCP. But the debate has shown that, at least in the House, is wider arc of defending as the positive interest shown by executive Rui Moreira in the concession, whose contract is ongoing.
The PSD, which the chamber by Alderman Amorim Pereira voice had held two weeks ago, the local authority should intervene but did not participate in the competition, at the meeting showed another opening to the initiative of the executive. Luís Artur argued that it is necessary to return to the city of Porto “decentralized” management of transport and said he believed that, given the “ cash flows positive that STCP has managed to generate” it is possible that the accounts of award – the differential between the cost of the operation and the compensation that the State intends to pay – “be positive”. This has been the condition required by the county to compete.
Rui Moreira led to meeting the specialist Alvaro Costa, who has assisted in this matter and is participating in a study requested by the municipality to Catholic University on the feasibility of concession, as proposed by the Government. But nobody wanted to hear the academic who designed the last major restructuring of the STCP network in 2006 Interestingly, Moreira has insisted that the proposal to tender networking, which is what is in effect, is not adapted to the needs of the city and is a the numerous problems of the specifications, which is being challenged by several entities. This document originated 2300 questions from stakeholders in the issue, which should lead to the extension of the deadline of the contest, noted.
None of these interests, however, the PCP or the Left Bloc. By Moreira accused of not supporting the intent of the city – a public entity, pointed – having been responsible in 1975 for the nationalization and clearing the municipal level, a company that the city had “pride”, the communist defenderam- with the arguments they had prepared. According Belmiro Magalhães, what is at stake is not the choice between a centralized or municipal management, because the specification does impositions, immediately reducing the service, which manietariam autarky and harm the company, its users and their workers. “This is a poisoned gift”, they warned.
The Communists insisted on criticism of the “long silence” Moreira, who accuse, let the specification was “so bad”. And when he explained that, after negotiations with the government, along with the other municipalities in the region, has been talking with private stakeholders in the issue, in order to influence its proposals, it was the turn of Ada Pereira, the Left Bloc , stating that he did not like to know what the mayor was doing “negociozinhos”. Moreira fought back, arguing that trade is different from doing business and, in an apparent scoff to its counterpart of Gaia, the press has pointed to problems Porto initiative, made it clear that, unlike other mayors, do not talk in the newspapers about the negotiations you are doing.
Moreira assured that the concession is winning, the proposals of other competitors is influencing, the aim of the council is to ensure that the service that will provide SRCP after this phase corresponds to the best the city needs – and in this respect criticized the lack of capillarity of the current network, for example. And consider that in the XXI century, a company like this has to win customers, to improve the urban environment and decrease the pressure of cars on the city streets.
The Left Bloc still tried to separate the two points of its motion, hoping that was approved the second, which required that the public management of STCP and the participation of the Council of Porto in local public transport is assured, but even that dissuaded the remaining forces of the two texts chumbarem. Moreira insisted that the position of the Assembly requested the suspension of tenders for underground and STCP would be useless, because an absolute majority government makes to understand what led Belmiro Magellan asking journalists not to disclose this position of mayor, so that the government does not deem the municipality of Porto has lowered his arms.
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