The Supreme Administrative Court (STA) dismissed the appeal of the President of the Chamber of Faro Macário Correia, thus confirming his loss of office, but the mayor says he is "quiet".
"There is no surprise in this decision of the STA, it is normal for the process to evolve," said Macário Correia to Sul Informação.
The mayor added that he "appeared in the Constitutional Court last week, so that my lawyers and I can assert our conviction with the Constitutional".
The current president of the Chamber of Faro he also expressed confidence that the Constitutional Court's decision will be favorable to him: “I have a good conscience, as I have always said. Furthermore, I believe in the functioning of justice. I will continue to work as I have done so far, while I calmly await the decision of the Constitutional Court».
Macário Correia was sentenced to loss of mandate as president of the Chamber of Faro, in a case related to several licensing processes, when he was still president of the Tavira Chamber.
According to the STA, the Algarvian mayor acted "with a high degree of guilt, when practicing the unlawful facts mentioned", which makes him "incur in the loss of office".
The same judgment, dated June 20, further says that, as "the matter of fact is shown", Macário Correia "has assumed the described illegal and violating conduct, namely the indicated instruments of territorial management and urban planning (PROT-Algarve and PDM/…), deliberately contradicting the written opinions, issued by the technical responsible councilors, and – as also follows from the matter of fact found – without any valid justification for such conduct being verified».
The Farense mayor had been accused “of guilty violation of valid and effective instruments of management and planning of the territory or urban planning”, in a case in which he had been acquitted in the first instance.
The case has to do with 21 processes for licensing housing, swimming pools and rural tourism, always violating the Protal and the PDM of Tavira. The STA considered that "the various illegalities thus committed" by the mayor "correspond to the most serious form of violation of the current urban legal framework".
José Macário Correia was elected president of the Tavira City Council in 1998, where he remained until 2009, the year he won the Municipalities in Faro.
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