The former president of the Academic Association of the University of Algarve (AAUAlg) Guilherme Portada welcomed the return of the Academic Week to the city of Faro and considered that it was proven that the executive led by Macário Correia took the party away from the urban fabric in 2011 for having something against him.
"All my colleagues at the University of Algarve, and the Farense population itself, can now recognize that, unfortunately, I was right when I said that there was a personal issue against me and against the Association led by me on the part of the Farense Municipality," he said. Guilherme Portada, in a statement sent to newsrooms this Monday.
Back in January, when he handed over his testimony to the current director of AAUAlg, Guilherme Portada had stated his desire to see the main party of the Algarve's university students back in Faro. “I hope that now that I have left the association, the Academic Week can return to the city”, he said at the time.
Last year, Wonderland was installed in Vale das Almas, next to the airport of Faro, allegedly by imposition of the Chamber of Faro. The party had a very different costume from the usual one and gave a high loss.
«The difficulties of 2011 came from the fact that we were forced to set up from scratch the biggest youth event in the Algarve outside of Faro. It wasn't because of the size of the "step", but because of the costs associated with moving away from the city center of Faro. The mobility difficulties of most young people and the very poor support of the Municipality of Faro to this event they were, indeed, the great causes of the damage of the Academic Week of 2011», reads the communiqué.
"And so much so that now in 2012 the local authority took the decision to allow the Academic Week to return to the city center", he defended.
«Time is the best mirror of the truth. It is now evident, as I have already said, that there was in fact a “personal issue” against me. Now that I am no longer the president of the Academic Association of the University of Algarve, the Academic Week can return to the city centre. Good thing!”, he concluded.
Guilherme Portada took this public position a few days after the presentation of the Academic Week 2012 poster, which returns to the Penha sports complex, albeit to an unprecedented venue.
Guilherme Portada is the son of José Apolinário, former president of the Chamber of Faro, and who lost the leadership of the autarchy to Macário Correia, but in the last municipal elections.
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