José Luis Carneiro spoke at the public session presenting Inês de Medeiros’s candidacy for Mayor of Almada in the Setúbal district, held today near the Town Hall.
The advocacy for a new local finance law aims to ensure that local housing policies are adequately funded.
“We cannot remain halfway and cannot rely on the Government’s policy choices, which promised to increase from 26,000 to 59,000, now promising to escalate from 59,000 to 130,000, but what has been done so far is merely delivering the homes we had prepared and resolved with the Socialist Party Government’s policies,” he stated.
In his address to a gathering of supporters for Inês de Medeiros’s candidacy, José Luis Carneiro also committed the Socialist Party to strive in the Assembly of the Republic for the realization of the Trafaria tunnel, describing it as a crucial political priority “to unblock the relationship between Almada and Lisbon and the traffic and movement between this city and the Lisbon metropolitan area.”
Regarding the candidacy presented today, José Luis Carneiro declared it is not just about winning Almada but also about electing the sixth councilor, urging everyone to fight for the control of the municipalities where the Socialist Party competes in the Setúbal district.
“From these victories, we will be able to rebuild the PS and restore it as Portugal’s leading party, once again deserving the trust to govern Portugal,” he emphasized.
In the upcoming municipal elections, he noted, Portuguese citizens will be called to assert and reaffirm fundamental values over political choices that seek to instrumentalize fear, encourage divisions and separations, and stimulate hatred and conflicts.
“The message we have to counteract this instrumentalization of fears is a message of generosity, of confidence in the future we all believe in,” he stressed.
The current Mayor of Almada, Inês de Medeiros (PS), is running for a third term, aiming to retain the municipality won from the CDU in 2017. The communists had governed the municipality since after the April 25th revolution.
The current executive comprises five members from the PS, four from the CDU, one from the BE, and one from the PSD. Both in 2017 and 2021, the PS and PSD formed an agreement to achieve an absolute majority in the executive.
According to the National Institute of Statistics, the municipality of Almada has about 184,000 inhabitants spread across 70 square kilometers.
