On Tuesday, Luís Filipe Menezes (PSD/CDS-PP/IL) was sworn in as president of the municipality in the Porto district, ending a 12-year period of socialist governance.
In a directive signed by the new mayor dated November 7, Friday, it was stated that the officials offered their positions after being posed with “the issue that it is common practice following a change in municipal political leadership” for municipal leaders to “offer their positions to the president.”
According to the same directive, “considering that in light of this exposition of common practice, the leaders (…) offered their positions with the municipal executive that they had held under a Commission of Service.”
“Assessing on a case-by-case basis this availability, the president of the Municipal Council, with a view to imprint new dynamics in the services, accepts the immediate cessation of these commissions of service”, it states.
The group includes division heads and department directors in areas such as mobility, transport, public works, social policies, urban planning, and road maintenance.
