“Everyone has a voice, everyone has a place, and everyone should be treated with dignity,” said Inês de Medeiros, emphasizing her intention to continue making Almada a city of the future “where every person counts and no one is a second-class Portuguese or a second-class Almada resident.”
The Socialist Inês de Medeiros won the local elections on October 12 for the Almada City Hall, in the district of Setúbal, securing 29.10% of the votes and four mandates, one less than in the 2021 elections.
In her inauguration speech, during a ceremony held on Friday night, the president of Almada City Hall, now assuming her third and final term, stated that the people of Almada have spoken clearly, expressing a desire to continue the path she started eight years ago.
“It is a day of gratitude and responsibility, a day on which we renew our commitment to the future of Almada, a commitment to serious, transparent, and inclusive work,” she stated, adding that the victory belongs to everyone.
According to Inês de Medeiros, the new term that begins today “is a time for continuity, responsibility, and rigor, not of easy promises, but of concrete work that respects people, rules, and territory.”
For the coming years, the president of Almada’s local government committed to rehabilitating and expanding schools and educational facilities, completing healthcare centers, demanding additional responses from the State, continuing to ensure public housing, strengthening rent support, and advancing sustainable mobility with the metro, river crossing, and cycling network.
The Socialist executive is also composed of Ivan Gonçalves, chairman of the Almada PS, and current councilors Filipe Pacheco and Francisca Parreira.
In these elections, the CDU (PCP/PEV) obtained 20.61% of the votes and three mandates, also one less than in the last local elections four years ago, electing Helena Azinheira, Luis Palma, and António Matos as councilors.
The third most voted political force was the PSD, with 19.36% of the votes, increasing their representation in the municipal executive from one to two councilors.
The head of the PSD list elected in these elections, Helder de Sousa Silva, resigned from the mandate, thus being replaced by Beatriz Brandão Ferreira, who took office today as a councilor alongside Paulo Sabino.
Chega, with 18.24% of the votes, will enter the Almada City Hall executive for the first time with two elected members, namely Carlos Magno (head of the list) and Nuno Mendes.
In the Almada Municipal Assembly, the PS was also the most voted political force, electing ten municipal deputies. The coalition CDU followed with seven mandates, and the Chega party also elected seven mandates.
The PSD secured six mandates and gained a parish council (Costa da Caparica), while the Left Bloc obtained two mandates and the Liberal Initiative one, entering the municipal assembly for the first time.
Today, after the installation ceremony of the Almada City Hall executive as well as the elected members of the Municipal Assembly, a vote was held to elect the president of the Municipal Assembly board.
Only one list was presented, consisting of João Couvaneiro (PS) as president, Jose Joaquim Leitão (PS) as first secretary, and Ana Paula Alves da Silva (PS) as second secretary.
The list was elected with 18 votes in favor, 19 blank votes, and one null vote.
