Medina delivered injunction to halt the sub … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, delivered on Friday, the Administrative Court of the District Lisbon, an injunction to try to catch the competition for the sub Carris and the Lisbon Metro. In the document, quoted by the Daily News , the municipality reiterates that the State has no power to grant concessions the service.

                     

                         Recourse to the courts to suspend the proceedings initiated on 23 March, the day when the Government launched the competition for those sub public transport companies had already been announced by the former mayor António Costa. The injunction, which precedes future lawsuits to cancel the tender is the first action since the March 24 (still with Costa in office), the municipal executive mandated the chairman of the authority to do whatever was necessary to “the interests of the municipality of Lisbon regarding the management of urban public transport networks.”

In the injunction request, that the Daily News had access, municipality argues that although the State is a shareholder of carriers (under the nationalization of companies in 1975) has no power to grant concessions the service. The camera claims that are still in place the concession contracts it signed with Metro (1949) and the Cars (1973). In addition, cites the Law of Local Government, which since September 30, 2013 assigns to municipalities skills to manage the transport network.

The document delivered to the Administrative Court of the District Lisbon also refers to opinion of the Advisory Council of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), requested by the Government, according to which the state is the legitimate grantor since the carriers are integrated into its business sector. The camera, however, is another reading: the RMP recognizes that the grantor should be the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Lisbon, which “leads to the conclusion,” under the law in force since 2013, which is the municipality

The local authority considers that the “damage to the public interest”, where the procedure is maintained, “far superior to the damage that can be caused by the suspension of pre-contractual procedure,” since it is not “plausible . “that the main actions to be brought from getting decided before the entry into operation before the sub-

The Government launched on 23 March the contract for the two contracts: one for the sub of the Metro transport system Lisbon for nine years (until 2024), with compulsory maintenance of rolling stock, and one for the sub for eight years (until 2023), the surface transportation service currently concession to Carris, being stipulated the obligation to renew all the company’s fleet. According to Secretary of State for Transport, Sergio Monteiro, the sub-dealers may not, throughout the duration of the contract period, increase the price of tickets, which is indexed to inflation.

Interested parties have until May 14 to submit proposals and the award criterion is the “lowest price”. Sergio Monteiro challenged the Council of Lisbon to present “the best offer” and thus winning the contest.