The PSD of Portimão denounced, in a statement, that the draft State Budget 2021, already approved in general, contains "no mention" of the maritime connection between Portimão and Funchal."
Portimonian Social Democrats recall that the resumption of ferryboat Portimão-Funchal was included in the State Budget for the current year, but did not go forward, accusing Prime Minister António Costa of not only breaking that promise, but also of “withdrawing any mention of it in the document for next year. matter".
But they also accuse mayor Isilda Gomes of failing "copiously", since the mayor promised, in the Municipal Assembly of Portimão, "to make the Government of her Party fulfill its promise".
The statement from the PSD's Portimão Council's Political Commission, chaired by Carlos Gouveia Martins, also recalls that, on April 29, 2019, the Portimão Municipal Assembly unanimously decided to mandate the City Council executive to participate in a tripartite Commission , between the Government of Portugal, the Regional Government of Madeira and the municipality of Portimão, and there to convey the desire to continue with the maritime connection with Funchal.
The Social Democrats consider that, by failing to even mention this project in the State Budget for 2021, "the socialist executive of Portimão has failed", having to "assume its responsibility for the defeat, in which it is clear its smaller position with the Government of Portugal».
For the leader of the PSD of Portimão, "in 2019, the unequivocal will of all political forces in the city to make the socialist government see the will to maintain the maritime link with Funchal was proven".
However, in 2020, he stresses, "we realized that the PS/Portimão had neither the will nor the political strength to include this issue in the 2021 State Budget".
«Portimão learns that only the local PSD made the effort, even with the Regional Government of Madeira, to comply with the Constitution and ensure the principle of territorial continuity, which is the responsibility of the State», adds Carlos Gouveia Martins.
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