the PS of Faro is available to help the coalition and the mayors who lead the City Council to arrive "with dignity at the end of the mandate", he told the Sul Informação Luís Graça, president of the Farense Socialist Council.
This manifestation of availability comes on the day the decision of the Constitutional Court of dismiss the appeal of the current president of the municipality of Faro, Macário Correia, on his sentence for loss of office.
The PSD mayor was convicted, in the first instance, for violating territorial planning instruments - Protal and PDM - when he was still president of the Tavira Chamber, a conviction which Macário appealed to the Constitutional Court (TC), which he has now confirmed the loss of office of the mayor.
«The decision of the TC confirms the words of the PS in July of last year. In other words, the engineer Macário Correia was and is convicted of repeated and systematic violation of environmental and territorial planning instruments", stressed Luís Graça, adding that the situation is even more serious because "he is a former secretary of state. of the Environment'.
The PS leader/Faro he also expressed his party's readiness to help the "normal and regular" functioning of the Chamber of Faro. Socialists say they want to help “find a transitional solution that guarantees the full development of the city of Faro, the accompaniment of people who need the City Council and the functioning of the local authority».
Luís Graça once again challenged the parties that support the majority in the municipality, namely the PSD and the CDS-PP, to say “the political trust is maintained in a mayor who has been sentenced in court”.
Because, with the departure of Macário Correia from the presidency of the Chamber, the current vice-president Rogério Bacalhau should take over.
But several sources contacted by Sul Informação underline that it is not clear that the mayor cannot re-apply for the Chamber of Faro in the Municipal Elections this year. Hence the challenge launched by the PS Farense to the parties of the ruling coalition, which, in addition to the PSD and CDS, also include the MPT and the PPM.
However, since the leadership of Marques Mendes, the PSD has not accepted the candidacy of people sentenced in court, so the chances of Macário, if the same guideline of the social-democratic leadership is maintained, should be slim.
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