Isilda Gomes, who takes office this evening as mayor of Portimão, will have as an ally, guaranteeing her the majority that she did not get in the elections on the 29th, Pedro Castelo Xavier, elected councilor by the PSD and leader of the Political Committee of the Section of the Portimonense PSD.
Pedro Castelo Xavier was, in fact, presented this afternoon to the heads of the Portimão City Council, by the outgoing president Manuel da Luz.
It is an alliance something counter contract, bearing in mind that the PSD was, in recent years and in times of pre-campaign and electoral campaign, a great critic of the socialist management of the Portimão Chamber, which Pedro Xavier himself has several times classified as «ruinous».
However, the negotiations between the PS and the PSD came to a successful conclusion and include, as I learned the Sul Informação, not only an agreement for the Chamber, but also for the Municipal Assembly, where the Socialists also do not have a majority, and in the Parish Councils.
The municipal elections of September 29 resulted in the PS victory for the Portimão Chamber, with Isilda Gomes as the new face, although guaranteeing only three seats in the council, against the opposition's four, shared by the Coalition «Servir Portimão»/CDS, PSD, Left Block and CDU.
Despite this agreement, PSD sources, who do not agree with the decision of the president of the Social Democrats from Portimão, told our newspaper that “it will be difficult for Pedro Xavier to maintain control over what the elements of our party elected for the City Council. Let's see if he can get the proposals that the Chamber may present at the Assembly, since Pedro Xavier has been challenged internally for a long time».
However, the coalition agreement with the PS has already been approved by the Political Committee of the Social Democrats' Section, as revealed by Pedro Xavier to our newspaper.
João Vasconcelos, councilor elected by the Left Bloc, told the Sul Informação that Isilda Gomes and the Portimonenses socialists never tried to establish an agreement with the BE. «In fact, last week, at the request of Dr. Isilda Gomes, we had a meeting. But she never opened the game, she didn't present any proposal, and an eventual agreement proposal had to come from their side», revealed João Vasconcelos.
“It doesn't mean that the Bloc would accept, it would certainly be a difficult negotiation, because we would have many conditions to impose. Therefore, it would be very difficult for us to reach an agreement. But it would have been acceptable if, at least, there had been an initiative by the PS in this direction».
The leader of the blocistas added: “I regret that the PS and Dr. Isilda Gomes have allied with the PSD. It is the central block operating in Portimão, which is sad. Furthermore, because this was not what the people of Portimo, as expressed in the elections».
«But this agreement between PS and PSD is not strange. Before the elections, it was already known that there were negotiations in this direction», concluded the councilor of BE in the Portimão Chamber.
To what Sul Informação he found that even before the agreement between PS and PSD was officially announced, it had already entered into force yesterday when the Parish Council of Portimão took office.
Meanwhile, the CDS/PP, which led the coalition «Servir Portimão», through which it elected José Pedro Caçorino as councilor, announced in a statement that it had severed "institutional relations" with the PSD Portimonense, while Pedro Xavier is the leader of the council. The fact is that, the centrists emphasize in a statement, a meeting between the CDS and the PSD of Portimão was even scheduled, but the social-democratic delegation not only did not attend, but did not provide any explanation for their absence.
Corrected: at 10:45 am on the 11th, adding the information provided by Pedro Xavier.
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