The PS was obliged, by the Court of Faro, to reorganize some of the candidate lists for municipal bodies in the Algarve capital, in the September 29 elections, for not complying with the Parity Law.
Farense socialists even have an overall percentage of women above what the law requires (40,5 percent, when the law requires a third), but the way the candidates were ordained did not convince the judge who assessed the case.
A «mere administrative procedure» meanwhile resolved, defended the PS, that the coalition «Together for Faro», led by the PSD, denounced publicly, first on social networks and, this morning, through a press release.
In the document, Rogério Bacalhau's candidacy considered that the socialists are "in the face of the unusual circumstance of achieving the feat of violating a promise even before the holding of elections."
«As serious as the violation of the law, is the flagrant violation of the trust of the citizens, who are aware of the commitment signed by candidate Paulo Neves to comply with the law of parity and to include 40% of women on the candidate lists for the council's municipal bodies », accuses the PSD/CDS-PP/MPT/PPM/MIM coalition.
An accusation that the PS says does not make sense and that it is "a lie", since the commitment assumed was not called into question.
“On our lists, we have 40,5 percent women and 53 percent independent candidates. We guarantee that we will compete with all the municipal bodies", which would not be possible if the lists violated the law, he declared to the Sul Informação Luís Graça, president of PS/Faro and fourth element of the candidate list for the City Council.
Following the presentation of the lists to the different municipal bodies by the PS, the Court of Faro pointed out non-conformities in the candidatures to the City Council, Municipal Assembly and to two of the four Parish Assemblies of the municipality of Faro.
At issue was the fact that there were three men or three women followed on the lists, a situation that the judge who evaluated the candidacy considered that it had to be rectified.
"When we made the lists, we put at least one woman or one man out of every three candidates, to comply with the law," in batches followed by three candidates, he said. The judge did not accept this interpretation and demanded that in no case were there more than two candidates of the same gender in a row. «It was a matter of changing the order of some names, everything is already resolved», guaranteed Luís Graça.
The leader of the Farenses socialists took the opportunity to go on the attack, criticizing the public position taken by his main opponent at the polls, who, he said, also had to correct aspects of his candidacy, similarly to proposals from other parties, a «normal situation ».
“The PSD is trying to create a smokescreen, resorting to procedural issues that have already been dealt with, because, on the one hand, it has no proposals for Faro and, on the other hand, to avoid discussing the halted works on the Variant, the increase in unemployment, the desertification of downtown and the potholes in the county's roads", considered Luís Graça, who guaranteed that the socialists will not join "in a campaign of backbiting'.
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