The Chamber of Castro Marim will have early elections. The social-democratic executive led by Francisco Amaral will ask for his resignation by the end of January, in order to force new elections, considering that the political situation in this municipality “is unsustainable”.
The new ballot will then have to be scheduled, something that will take place within "two and a half months". So I told the Sul Informação the mayor of Castro Marim, the new elections should take place "in April". "It will certainly be before the European elections", scheduled for 26 May.
Francisco Amaral was re-elected mayor of Castro Marim in 2017, but lost the majority in the City Council. Since then, wars have taken place between the minority executive and the opposition, which also has more elected elements in the Municipal Assembly, the most recent of which around the extinction of the Novbaesuris municipal company.
“I don't find any alternative but early elections. The weekly council meetings have turned into a massacre and the population of Castro Marim is not benefiting at all, quite the contrary. The works are late, some were even made impossible. Mobile Health Unit stopped six months. This is unsustainable!”, explained the Castro-Marinean mayor, who believes that the “only solution is to give voice to the people”.
"I don't want to be president at any cost and I can see that the people of Castro Marim are being harmed by what is happening," he added.
The president of the Castro-Marinean Chamber guarantees that “the population is angry and doesn't like what is happening at all”.
Tomorrow, Francisco Amaral will meet with Rui Rio, president of the PSD, to explain his intentions. «At the start, by the end of the month we will present the resignation to the President of the Municipal Assembly and to the Secretary of State for Local Authorities, who will later mark new elections».
Before that, Francisco Amaral had already met with the Secretary of State for Local Authorities, who “understood the situation”.
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