After all, the land of the South Regional Emitter, where the RTP delegation operates, in Faro, are municipal and cannot be sold, as intended by the administration of public radio and television. the PS Faro says that there was an illegal appropriation by the RDP, in 1985, and asks the City Council to take measures to recover the 9 square meter (m2) property, building, on the spot, housing for young people and a green park.
Paulo Neves, president of the PS/Faro, said today, at a press conference, that the socialists have already delivered, to the Public Ministry, a participation that “intends that the interests of the State be defended. We delivered evidence so that the Public Prosecutor's Office can re-establish legal peace between the various interests involved».
What is at stake is that the Chamber of Faro, «between 1947 and 1954, it was buying several lands from private companies», to cede it to the State, for the installation of the Regional Emitter of the South of the, then called, National Emitter.
The deal was so “impacting that the Chamber was not even able to pay SISA right away”.
Then, in 1984, when land registration became mandatory, «there was the perception that the land belonged to the RDP» which, by adverse possession, in 1985, registered a total area of 14055 m2, with 422 m2 of covered area, corresponding to the Regional Station.
However, according to the document delivered by the PS Faro to the Public Prosecutor's Office, «the first matrix registration with the Southern Regional Issuer refers precisely to the 450 m2 for the implementation of the building and the space for the antenna transferred, so that the remaining portion remained in the municipal domain».
Paulo Neves argues that «the error is resolved because, in terms of public law, there is no usucapion figure, so this appropriation can be decided as null, or nullified, if this is the proposal of the City Council of Faro».
Socialists consider that "seeing the documents, the offices and who paid what, one realizes that the land belongs to all of us".
The solution, for the socialists, is that RTP "continues to use and refit the building, maintaining its activity", together with the adjacent space where an antenna is built, totaling 2000 square meters, and that the City Council recover “9000 square meters in a privileged area of the city, which must be regenerated and placed at the service of their rightful co-owners – the citizens of Faro”.
Paulo Neves considers that what is happening «is an appropriation for sale. The RTP's Independent General Council came here, with the aim of removing its facilities from there to move elsewhere, at the University of Algarve, selling the land. The mayor of Faro it cannot repeat, after that, what it said to the Workers' Committee, that if RTP wants to sell, it can make index 1 there, that is, sell to private companies and urbanize 14 thousand square meters. Of course RTP would like to do this, it is an interesting value».
According to the socialists, the intention of the administration of RTP is old since, as early as 1985, in the mandate of Negrão Belo at the head of the Chamber of Faro, the RDP “intended to build housing for sale on that land, but this claim did not obtain the immediate agreement of the municipality. The same attempt and results occurred in 1996, with President Luís Coelho and, later, in 2006, with José Apolinário».
The situation, for Paulo Neves, “can't stay any longer in this mistake. Every ten years, someone remembers wanting to sell a piece of land that is ours».
the PS Faro, in an open letter to Rogério Bacalhau, Mayor, also defends the classification of the building of the Regional Issuer as a Building of Municipal Interest, «as evidenced in its history, a heritage project associated with Coimbra and public communication by the foundation of the Issuer National, which calls Faro and the Algarve to Manuel Bívar and Duarte Pacheco». Socialists will present the proposal to local bodies.
The documents attached to the action, delivered to the Public Ministry, which justify the socialist position, were consulted at Torre do Tombo, at Forte de Sacavém (General Directorate of Cultural Heritage), at the Municipal Archives of Faro, in the Algarve Finance Department and in the Finance Department of Faro.
Contacted by Sul Informação, source of the Chamber of Faro he said only that the executive will analyze the content of the open letter and the questions raised by the Socialist Party, and then take a position on the matter.
Photos: Rodrigo Damasceno|Sul Informação
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