The Municipal Coordinating Committee of the Left Block of Portimão considers that the approval of the Municipal Support Fund (FAM) by the Court of Auditors is «a new troika in Portimão».
For this reason, “it does not share the euphoria expressed” by the Permanent Executive of the Municipality of Portimo and “on the contrary, it is vehemently opposed”.
It is because, guarantee the blockists, led by councilor and deputy João Vasconcelos, "the FAM constitutes an attack on the financial and administrative autonomy of the Municipality, forcing it to apply maximum municipal rates, penalizing Portimonenses for a long period of time - 27 years old".
According to the Bloc, the need to resort to the FAM in Portimão “shows years of ruinous management carried out by successive majorities PS”.
BE recalls that, according to the proposal to appeal to the FAM, the municipal debt amounts to 151 million euros and the loan granted reaches 142 million euros.
"But it is still dramatic that, of those 142 million, 5 million are destined to legal proceedings and more than 121 million will go straight to the bank," they stress, concluding that "it was not for this calamity that the democratic local power was conquered with the April Revolution».
The adhesion to the FAM by the Portimão Chamber, according to the Bloc, "represents an aggravation of the unfair policy followed so far, establishing municipal taxes at the highest rates", and will "decrease social support for families and communities and will mean a kind of troika on the Municipality and its democratically elected bodies – during various municipal terms”.
«The impact of Municipal Taxes, in particular of IMI and the variable participation in the IRS constitute hard and increased efforts to be supported by Portimonenses», «not talking about the high tariffs for water, sanitation and solid urban waste», say the blockistas from Portimonenses who add that the FAM will also "force the reduction of staff in the coming years".
But the Portimonense Left Bloc also defends that «the use of the FAM, in addition to being politically undesirable, does not offer the slightest credibility as to the proposed objectives, considering that the basis of the revenue estimates is not only fallacious, but even contradictory».
"Over the next 27 years, Portimonenses will be subjected to a veritable garrote and the dictatorship of the banks, being forced to pay a colossal debt and a serious crisis, for which they are not responsible", adds the BE, which concludes: "there are responsible and they walk around».
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